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bombycinus

bombycinus · adj

of silk

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bombȳcĭnus — Lewis & Short

bombȳcĭnus, a, um, adj.bombyx,

I of silk, silken (cf. sericus): vestis, Plin. 11, 22, 26, § 76: panniculus, Juv. 6, 260: taenia, Mart. 14, 24; Dig. 34, 2, 23, § 1.—Subst.: bombȳcĭna, ōrum, n., silk garments, Mart. 11, 50, 5; 8, 68, 7; App. M. 8, p. 214, 6.—And bombȳcĭnum, i, n., a silk texture or web, Isid. Orig. 19, 22, 13.

In the wild

bombycinam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.11.p25
bombycinis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.12.p2
bombycina Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.22.p2
bombycinus Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.260
bombycina Martial, Epigrammata 8.68.7
bombycino Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.31

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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