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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
blandulus (feminine blandula, neuter blandulum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) diminutive of blandus (“charming, pleasant”)
76 CE – 108 CE,
Hadrian,
Carmina 3:
- Animula vagula blandula,
hospes comesque corporis,
quae nunc abībis in loca
pallidula, rigida, nūdula,
nec ut solēs dabis iocōs...- Translation by Wikisource
- Little soul, wandering, pleasing,
guest and companion of the body,
which now go away in places
pale, stiff, bare,
and will not jest as you do...
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “blandulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- blandulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.