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‡ pūmĭcātor, ōris, m. [pumico], a polisher, scourer: pumicator, σμήκτης, Gloss. Cyril.

pūmĭcātus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from pumico.

pūmĭcĕus, a, um, adj. [pumex],

  1. I. of pumice-stone, or of soft stone; in gen. (very rare): molae, Ov. F. 6, 318: sedes, Sil. 7, 419: antra, Stat. S. 3, 1, 144; cf. fontes, flowing from pumice-stone, Mart. 4, 57, 2.
  2. II. Trop.: oculi, not in a condition to weep, stony, dry, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 73.

pūmĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [pumex],

  1. I. to rub or smooth with pumice-stone, to polish (anteclass. and post-Aug.): rador, subvellor, desquamor, pumicor, ornor, Lucil. ap. Non. 95, 16: pumicata manus, Mart. 5, 41, 6: pumicata frons, id. 1, 67, 10; Cat. 39, 19: dentes, Hier. Ep. 10.
  2. II. Trop.: nullis assentantium pumicatur sermonibus, Ambros. Ep. 43, 12.
    Hence, pūmĭcātus, a um, P. a., smoothed, i. e. effeminate, luxurious: homo comptus et pumicatus, Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 23: satrapae (with myrrhati, malobathrati), Sid. Ep. 8, 3 fin.: detonsus pumicatusque, id. ib. 1, 7.

pūmĭcōsus, a, um, adj. [pumex], like pumice-stone, i. e. porous: terra, Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 34; Vitr. 2, 3: lapis, Plin. 36, 19, 34, § 141.
Comp.: halcyoneum, Plin. 32, 8, 27, § 86.

pūmĭlĭo (collat. form pūmĭlo, Stat. S. 1, 6, 57), ōnis, comm. [pumilus], a dwarf, pigmy: necari a non armato pumilione, Mart. 1, 43, 10: scutum pumilionis erit, id. 14, 213, 2.
Of women: parvula, pumilio (est) Χαρίτων μία, tota merum sal, Lucr. 4, 1162.
Prov.: pumilio, licet in monte, non est magnus, Sen. Ep. 76, 31.
Transf., of fowls, Col. 8, 2, 14; bantams, Plin. 10, 56, 77, § 156; of plants, id. 11, 49, 108, § 260; 12, 2, 6, § 13; 17, 22, 35, § 176.

pūmĭlo, ōnis, v. pumilio init.

pūmĭlus, a, um (scanned pŭm-, Stat. S. 1, 6, 64; collat. form pūmĭlis, νάνος, Gloss. Philox.), adj.,

  1. I. dwarfish, diminutive, little: puero pumilior, App. M. 5, p. 163, 5.
  2. II. Subst.: pūmĭlus, i, m., a dwarf, Stat. S. 1, 6, 65; Suet. Aug. 83.