Globulus, pen. corr. Diminutiuum. Plin. A little rounde bowle or pellet.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
glŏbŭlus, i, m.dim. [id.], a little ball, a globule (post-Aug. and very rare). I.Lit.: (chrysocollae) globulis sudore resolutis, Plin. 33, 5, 27, 89.—2. Esp. (a).a lump of food, dumpling, Cato, R. R. 79; Varr. L. L. 5, 107 Müll.—(b). Med. t. t., a pill, Scrib. 13 al.—II.Trop., of speech, a rounding: melliti verborum, Petr. 1.
