The corpus record — Latin

ballux

ballux · f

gold-sand

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What it meant

ballux — Lewis & Short

ballux (bal-), ūcis, f.Spanish,

I gold-sand, gold-dust, xru/sammos, Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 77; Just. 44, 1, 10 (less correctly paludibus); Mart. 12, 57, 9 (less correctly paludes); and Latinized ballūca (bal-), ae, f., Cod. Valent. 11, 6, 1 and 2; Cod. Th. 10, 19, 3 and 4; Veg. Vet. 1, 20, 2.

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.