The corpus record — Latin

abrŏtŏnum

abrŏtŏnum · n

a plant of a pleasant

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What it meant

abrŏtŏnum — Lewis & Short

abrŏtŏnum (or better, hab-), i, n., abrŏtŏnus, i, m., = a(bro/tonon,

I a plant of a pleasant, aromatic smell, southernwood; perh. Artemisia abrotonum, Linn.: abrotoni graves, Lucr. 4, 125; so m.: gravem serpentibus urunt abrotonum, Luc. 9, 921: abrotonum aegro non audet dare (as a medicine), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; cf. Plin. 21, 10, 34, §§ 60 and 160; Scrib. Comp. 7 sq., 167.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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