The corpus record — Latin

acacia

acacia · f

The acacia-tree

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Where it lives

De Medicina 18 · 1.76/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

ăcācĭa — Lewis & Short

ăcācĭa, ae, f., = a)kaki/a.

I The acacia-tree, the Egyptian pod-thorn: Mimosa Nilotica, Linn.; described by Plin. 24, 12, 67, § 109 sq.—

II The juice or gum of the same, Cels. 6, 6; Plin. 20, 21, 85, § 233; Scrib. Comp. 23 al.

In the wild

acacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.6.p2
acaciae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.2.p4
acacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p69
acacia Celsus, De Medicina 5.1
acaciae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.12.p3
acacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.21.p3

6 of 30 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.