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|lshtext=<b>frīvŏlus</b>: a, um, adj. etym. dub.; perh. from [[frico]],<br /><b>I</b> [[silly]], [[empty]], [[trifling]], [[frivolous]]; [[pitiful]], [[sorry]], [[worthless]] ([[mostly]] [[post]]-Aug.; perh. not in Cic.; cf. [[futtilis]]).<br /><b>I</b> Adj.: [[frivolus]] hic [[quidem]] jam et [[illiberalis]] est [[sermo]], Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16: levibus aut frivolis aut [[manifesto]] falsis reum incessere ([[shortly]] [[after]]: [[quia]], qui vana congerit), Quint. 7, 2, 34; Vop. Aur. 3, 1: colligitis lexidia, res taetras et inanes et frivolas, Gell. 18, 7, 3: frivola et [[inanis]] [[argutiola]], id. 2, 7, 9: quaedam dicit futtilia et frivola, id. 16, 12, 1: jocus, Plin. 28, 19, 79, § 260: [[auspicium]], Suet. Ner. 41: [[aura]], Phaedr. 5, 8, 1: [[insolentia]], id. 3, 6, 8: jactantia in parvis, Quint. 1, 6, 20: [[opus]], Plin. 22, 6, 7, § 15: [[labor]], Sen. Ep. 31: [[cura]], Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 22: [[origo]] superbissimi animalium (i. e. hominis), id. 7, 7, 5, § 43: ratione morientes, id. 11, 29, 35, § 102: flunt in litterarum ostentatione inepti et frivoli, Gell. 15, 30, 2; so, in cognoscendo ac decernendo [[nonnumquam]] [[frivolus]] amentique [[similis]], Suet. Claud. 15: [[quin]] [[etiam]], [[quod]] est [[imprimis]] frivolum ac scaenicum, [[verbum]] petant (declamatores), quo incipiant, Quint. 10, 7, 21: frivolum dictu, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186: frivolum videatur, non [[tamen]] omittendum, id. 28, 12, 50, § 184: huic misit qui [[nescio]] [[quid]] frivoli ducentis milibus traderet, [[some]] [[worthless]] [[thing]], [[trifle]], Suet. Calig. 39 fin.—<br /><b>II</b> Subst.: frīvŏla, ōrum, n. <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>, [[wretched]] [[furniture]], [[paltry]] things, trifles: [[inter]] frivola mea, Sen. Tranq. 1; Dig. 13, 7, 11, § 5: jam poscit aquam: jam frivola transfert [[Ucalegon]], Juv. 3, 198; 5, 59; Suet. Calig. 39; Dig. 13, 7, 11, § 5; cf.: frivola σκευάρια εὐτελῆ [[πάνυ]]>, Gloss. Philox.—Hence, adv.: frī-vŏlē, in a [[silly]] [[manner]], triflingly: [[aliqui]] mentiuntur, Hier. in Mich. II. 7, 8.