The corpus record — Latin

barbărĭcārĭus

barbărĭcārĭus · m

a gold-weaver

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What it meant

barbărĭcārĭus — Lewis & Short

barbărĭcārĭus, ii, m.barbarus, = Phrygio,

I a gold-weaver, an embroiderer in gold, a gilder, Cod. Just. 12, 24, 7; Cod. Th. 10, 22, 1; Inscr. Orell. 4152; Edict. Diocl. 16, 48, p. 84 Momms.; cf. Donat. ad Verg. A. 11, 777.

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.