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ācridĭum

ācridĭum · n

another name for the

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What it meant

1. ācridĭum — Lewis & Short

ācridĭum, ĭi, n.,

I another name for the scammonia, acc. to Isid. Orig. 17, 9, 64.

2. acridium — Walde–Hofmann

acridium, -; n. „Pflanze von purgierender Wirkung* (Isid., Greg. Tur.): wohl, aus gr. baxpbbiov FTränchen, lacrimum Aethiopicum* (dagridium Diosc.) durch die Zwischenformen dya-, diagridium (Garg. Mart, Cass. Fel) welche man als o6 ákpíbvov auffaßte nach den mit tid gebildeten Arzneinamen, zugleich in Anlehnung an äcer (Keller Vlksetym. 64). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. acridium, p. 42]

Where it came from

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