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#776

noun

declension: 2^nd declension
gender: neuter

Definitions:

plant use as antidote for snake-bite

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#777

adjective

Definitions:

having served as demarch (magistrate of a Greek deme/township)

Age: Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
Geography: Greece
Frequency: Only citation is inscription
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#778

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

(extract acts as active, gentle purgative)
turpeth (globularia alypum)

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#779

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

precious stone (unknown, diamond?) (as remedy for sadness)

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: All or none
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)

#780

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

diamond (as remedy for sadness L+S)
hardest of substances (adamas)
steel

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: All or none
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#781

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

woman resting (as title of painting)

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: All or none
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#782

noun

declension: 2^nd declension
gender: neuter

Definitions:

color of saffron, saffron-yellow (L+S)
saffron oil used as a perfume

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: All or none
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#783

noun

declension: 2^nd declension
gender: neuter

Definitions:

ram (as an offering)

Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Only citation is inscription
Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)

#784

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

vegetable/wood ash (as substitute for mineral ash)

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

#785

noun

declension: undeclined

Definitions:

(as opposed to rhizias - from root)
thing taken/derived form stalk

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
Geography: All or none
Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)