The corpus record — Latin

bacalia

bacalia · f

a kind of laurel abounding in berries

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

bācālĭa, ae. f.baca,

I a kind of laurel abounding in berries, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 129.

In the wild

bacaliam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.30.p1

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.