The corpus record — Latin

brassica

brassica · f

cabbage

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 30 · 19.18/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
Naturalis Historia 30 · 0.76/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

1. brassĭca — Lewis & Short

brassĭca, ae, f.,

I cabbage; of several varieties (much prized by the ancients, and freq. employed in medicine), Cato, R. R. 156 sq.; Col. 10, 127 sq. Schneid.; 11, 3, 23; Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 136 sq.; 20, 9, 33, § 78 sq.; Pall. Febr. 24, 7; id. Jun. 4; id. Sept. 13, 1; id. Aug. 5, 3; Veg. 3, 15, 12; Plin. Val. 4, 29; Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 26; Prop. 4 (5), 2, 44.al. (in Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120, perh. a gloss; v. Orell. N. cr.).—Plur.: brassĭcae, ārum, f., varieties of cabbage, Cato, R. R. 187, 3; Plin. 20, 9, 37, § 96.

2. brassica — Walde–Hofmann

brassica, -ae f. ,Kohl* (seit Plaut. und Cato, rom): unerklärt. Nicht überzeugend Ceci Rendic. Acc. Lincei ser. V t. III, 470 (als „Weißkohl“ zur Wz. *bheräg- „weiß glünzen* in fraxinus mit mundartlichem br- statt fr- und -ss für -ks-, doch s. unter brattea); Walde LEW.? s. v. (gall Wort mit br- aus *ur- als *uräd-so- zu rüdir mit Bed.-Verschiebung von retüg- und rübenartigen Kreuzblütlern zu Kohlarten); Loewenthal … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. brassica, p. 146]

In the wild

brassica Celsus, De Medicina 2.29
brassicam Cato, De agri cultura 157
brassica Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.45
brassicae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.6.1
brassicam Cato, De agri cultura 157
brassicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.10.p1

6 of 75 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. brassica (scan p. 99; entry #1331).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. brassica (scan p. 146; entry #436). Root candidates: *bheräg-, *ur-.

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