The corpus record — Latin

absinthium

absinthium · n

wormwood

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
De Rerum Natura 5 · 1.03/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

absinthĭum — Lewis & Short

absinthĭum, i, n. (also absinthĭus, i, m., ap. Varr. acc. to a)yi/nqion,

Non. 190, 25), =

I wormwood, Plin. 27, 7, 28 sq.; Cato, R. R. 159; Varr. R. R. 1, 57; Col. 12, 35; Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 90: tetrum, Lucr. 1, 936; 2, 400; 4, 11 al.—Trop. for something bitter, but wholesome, Quint. 3, 1, 5.

In the wild

absinthia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.4
absinthia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.224
absinthia Ausonius, Epistularum 30.7
absinthia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.930
absinthia Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.1.23
absinthia Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.21.6

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. absinthium (scan p. 28; entry #100).

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