#26
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- act which averts evil
- amulet/charm (to avert evil)
- power to avert evil
- 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)