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vitellus

vitellus · m

A little calf

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 8 · 5.1/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

vĭtellus — Lewis & Short

vĭtellus, i, m.dim.vitulus. *

I A little calf, as a term of endearment, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 77.—

II Transf., the yolk of an egg, Cels. 6, 6, 1; Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; Petr. 33 fin.; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 148; Hor. S. 2, 4, 14; 2, 4, 57; Mart. 13, 40, 1.—Called also vĭtellum, i, n., Apic. 4, 1; Varr. ap. Prob. ad Verg. E. 6, 31.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uitellus (scan p. 765; entry #12768).

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