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vitulus

vitulus · m

a calf

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Where it lives

Georgicon 5 · 3.53/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vĭtŭlus — Lewis & Short

vĭtŭlus, i, m., and vitŭla, ae, f.Gr. i)talo/s, bull; whence Italia; Sanscr. vatsas, calf,

I a calf.

I Lit.

(a) Masc., a bullcalf, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 6; Cic. Div. 2, 15, 36; Quint. 1, 9, 5; Ov. M. 2, 624; 4, 755; 10, 227; Mart. 3, 58, 11; Verg. G. 4, 299 al.—

(b) Fem., a cow-calf, Verg. E. 3, 29 and 77.—

II Transf.

A In gen., a calf, foal; of the horse, Verg. G. 3, 164; of the elephant, Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2; of the whale, id. 9, 6, 5, § 13.—

B In partic.: vitulus marinus, a sea-calf, seal, Juv. 3, 238; Suet. Aug. 90.—Called also simply vitulus, Plin. 2, 55, 56, § 146.

2. vitulus — Walde–Hofmann

vitulus, - m. „Kalb, Meerkalb* (seit Cato, rom., ebenso vitellus, -4 ,Külbchen, Eidotter* seit Plaut. [s. d.]; vgl. vitulinus, -a, um „vom Kalb* seit Plt. [vitulina, -ae f. „Kalbfleisch* seit Plt.], vitula, -ae f. „Kälbchen* seit Cic.; vgl. EN. Vitulus seit Varro): = u. vitluf ‘vitulöse” (über o. Vítelis „Italien“ und lat. Italia s. aber dieses oben I 723); wohl als ,Jührling* zu cetus (Curtius 208, Vanitek 262), … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vitulus, p. 1715]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vitulus (scan pp. 1715-1716; entry #3289).

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