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byssus

byssus · f

cotton

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

byssus — Lewis & Short

byssus, i, f. (byssum, i, n., bu/ssos [Heb. ],

Isid. Orig. 19, 27, 4), =

I cotton, cotton stuff, App. M. 11, p. 258, 20; Mart. Cap. 2, § 114; Vulg. Exod. 25, 4 al. (acc. to others, a fine kind of flax, and the linen made from it; v. Liddell and Scott's Lex.).

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. byssus (scan p. 103; entry #1413).

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