balsămĭnus — Lewis & Short
balsămĭnus, a, um, adj., = balsa/minos,
I of balsam:
oleum,Plin. 23, 4, 47, § 92.
The corpus record — Latin
balsaminus
balsaminus · adj
of balsam
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- balsamino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.23.p44
- Balsaminum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.4.p9
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.