The corpus record — Latin

baccar

baccar · n

a plant having a fragrant root

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. baccar — Lewis & Short

baccar (bacchar), ăris, n. (baccăris,is, f., ba/kxa^ris,

Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 45), =

I a plant having a fragrant root, from which an oil was expressed; also called nardum rusticum (cf. Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 45); acc. to Sprengel it is the Celtic valerian: Valeriana Celtica. Linn.; Plin. 21, 6, 16, § 29; Verg. E. 4, 19 (baccar herba est, quae facinum depellit, Serv.); 7, 27.

2. baccar — Walde–Hofmann

baccar, -is n. (seit Verg.), -is f. (Plin.) „Pflanze mit wohlriechender Wurzel*, wrsch. „Gnaphalium sanguineum L.*, verwandt mit asarum „Haselwurz“ (= gr. &capov; vgl. span. asarabacara): entl. aus gr. Bdxkapız f. (-ıdog und Av; Bdkxap Ps. Diosc. Rückentl, aus dem Lat). lydisches Wort nach Schol. Aristoph. Pers. 42. — Nicht aus dem Gall. mit Dottin 230, Holder I 322f., Meyer-Lübke REW. n. 863a. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. baccar, p. 123]

In the wild

Baccara Martial, Epigrammata 7.92.4
Baccara Martial, Epigrammata 7.92.10
baccar Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p22
Baccara Martial, Epigrammata 6.59.2
Baccara Martial, Epigrammata 7.92.2
Baccara Martial, Epigrammata 11.74.1

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. baccar (scan p. 123; entry #337).

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