baroptĕnus — Lewis & Short
baroptĕnus, i, f., or barippē, ēs, f.,
I an unknown precious stone of a black color, with white and red spots, Plin. 37, 10, 55, § 150.
The corpus record — Latin
baroptenus
baroptenus · f
an unknown precious stone of a black color
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Baroptenus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p4
- baroptenus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p60
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.