The corpus record — Latin

balanites

balanites · m

an unknown precious stone

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bălănītes — Lewis & Short

bălănītes, ae, m., = balani/ths (acornshaped),

I an unknown precious stone, Plin. 37, 10, 55, § 149; Isid. Orig. 16, 15, 10.

In the wild

balanitis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.23.p1
Balanitae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p60
Balanitae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p4

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.