vetula
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Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
vetula f (genitive: vetulae)
- old woman
- 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.
- mortua, non vetula ("a dead woman, not an old one")
- 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.
- A corn dolly or small figurine, shaped as an old woman; a term in use among the Druidic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century.
- 7th century BC, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.[1]
- Nullus in Kalendas Januarii nefanda et ridiculosa, vetulas aut cervulos vel iotticos ("Do not..make vetulas, little deer or iotticos")
- 7th century BC, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.[1]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Elskens, Etienne, compiler. Latin Words, Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans.[2]
- Miller, Paul Allen. Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.380-381. [3]
- Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius) (in English)[4] - US translation
- Vita di Eligio, SRM 4, II, 16. (in Latin)[5]
- Wikipedia:Corn dolly
