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acinus

acinus · m

A berry

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 82 · 2.07/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 11 · 1.4/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ăcĭnus — Lewis & Short

ăcĭnus, i, m., and ăcĭnum, i, n., partic. in ăcĭna, ae, f.,

plur. acina, orum (also Cat. 27, 4).

I A berry, esp. the grape, Col. 11, 2, 60; also: hederae sambucique, Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 100 sq.: cissanthemi, ib. 25, § 116: ligustri, ib. 24, 74: trychni, ib. 21, § 177.—

II Per meton., the stone of a berry, Cic. Sen. 15, 52.

In the wild

acinus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.34.p2
acinorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.36.p2
acinos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.31.p3
acino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.2.p7
acini Cicero, De Senectute 52
acinis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.17.p2

6 of 99 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. acinus (scan pp. 30-31; entry #147).

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