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abiga

abiga · f

a plant which has the power of producing abortion

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. ăbĭga — Lewis & Short

ăbĭga, ae, f.abigo,

I a plant which has the power of producing abortion; Greek xamai/pitus, ground-pine: Teucrium iva, Linn.; Plin. 24, 6, 20, § 29.

2. abiga — Walde–Hofmann

abiga, -ae f. ,chamaepitys*: zu abigó „treibe ab“ (z. B. Cic. Cluent. 32; vgl. Plin. nat. 24, 30 vocatur propter abortus). Walde-P. 135, Vanitek 7. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. abiga, p. 36]

In the wild

abiga Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.6.p7

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. abiga (scan p. 41; entry #309).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. abiga (scan p. 36; entry #67).

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