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bombyx

bombyx · m

The silk-worm

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bombyx — Lewis & Short

bombyx, ȳcis, m. (f., bo/mbuc.

Plin. 11, 23, 27; Tert. Pall. 3), =

I The silk-worm, Plin. 11, 22, 25, § 75 sqq.; Mart. 8, 33, 16; Serv. ad Verg. G. 2, 121; Isid. Orig. 12, 5, 8; 19, 27, 5.—

II Meton.

A That which is made of silk, a silken garment, silk: Arabius, Arabian (the best), Prop. 2, 3, 15: Assyria bombyx, Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 78.—

B In gen., for any fine fibre, e. g. cotton, Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 14.

In the wild

bombyx Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.512
bombyx Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.22.p2
bombyx Martial, Epigrammata 8.33.16

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bombyx (scan p. 97; entry #1294).

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