The corpus record — Latin

cadmia

cadmia · f

an ore of zinc

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Where it lives

De Medicina 17 · 1.66/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

cadmī^a — Lewis & Short

cadmī^a (cadmē^a, Paul. ex ae, f., = kadmei/a or kadmi/a,

Fest. p. 47, 10 Müll.),

I an ore of zinc, calamine, cadmia, Plin. 34, 1, 2, § 2; 34, 10, 22, § 100; Paul. ex Fest. l. l.; Isid. Orig. 16, 20, 2 and 11.—

II The dross or slag formed in a furnace, Plin. 34, 10, 22. § 100 sq.; Isid. Orig. 16, 20, 12.

In the wild

cadmiae Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p24
cadmiam Celsus, De Medicina 7.7.p11
cadmiae Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p27
cadmia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.7.p2
cadmiae Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p25
cadmea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.18.p1

6 of 31 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.