The corpus record — Latin

cachrys

cachrys · f

An appendage to the catkin of certain trees in autumn

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

cachrys — Lewis & Short

cachrys, ўos, f., = ka/xrus (ka/gxrus).

I An appendage to the catkin of certain trees in autumn, a cone, Plin. 16, 8, 11, § 30; Cels. 5, 18, n. 5; admixta cachry, Plin. 22, 22, 32, § 71; 27, 13, 109, § 134.—

II The capsule of rosemary, Plin. 24, 11, 60, § 101. —

III The white kernel of the plant crethmos, Plin. 26, 8, 50, § 82.

In the wild

cachrys Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p14
Cachrys Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p11
cachryos Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p6
cachry Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p2
cachry Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p62
cachrys Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p10

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.