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bdellium

bdellium · n

an Asiatic plant

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Where it lives

De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. bdellĭum — Lewis & Short

bdellĭum, ii, n. (bĕdella, ae, f., bde/llion,

Marc. Emp. 19; cf. the letter B), =

I an Asiatic plant, distinguished for its fragrant gum, the vine-palm: Borassus flabelliformis, Linn.; Plin. 12, 9, 19, § 35; Isid. Orig. 17, 8, 6.—

II Meton., the costly gum exuding from it: Arabicum, Veg. 6, 14, 1 and 5: color bdellii, Vulg. Num. 11, 7.—Hence, as a term of endearment: tu crocinum et casia es, tu bdellium, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 7.

2. bdellium — Walde–Hofmann

bdellium, -; n. „Harz der orientalischen Weinpalme (seit Plin.): aus gr. BbéAMtov, BbéAAa ds., dies aus dem Semit. (assyr. budulhu, hebr. bödolah; vgl. die Nbf. bei Plin. 12, 35 brochon, gr. BboAx6v). — Schrader RL. I? 84 f. beatus s. beo. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bdellium, p. 131]

In the wild

bdelli Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p14
bdelli Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p8
bdelli Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p28
bdelli Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p6
bdellium Celsus, De Medicina 5.12
bdellium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.9.p1

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bdellium (scan p. 131; entry #379).

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