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The corpus record — Latin

baetulus

baetulus · m

a precious stone

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Where it lives

  • Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

baetŭlus — Lewis & Short

baetŭlus (bēt-), i, m., = bai/tulos,

I a precious stone, round and of a dark color, a species of ceraunia, Plin. 37, 9, 51, § 135.

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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.