Definitions
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- noun a slave girl, a servant-girl
Etymologies
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Latin ancillula, diminutive of ancilla ‘handmaid’, a feminine diminutive of anculus ‘servant’.
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Examples
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AVE = occurs in Ovid only here and at _RA_ 639-40 'nec ueniat seruus, nec flens ancillula fictum/suppliciter dominae nomine dicat "aue!"', and is not common in writing.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Uxori cmcnda ancillula ejl; tum plufcula 6 proinde fcribito lam mihi dicas:
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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