The corpus record — Latin

callais

callais · f

a sea-green precious stone

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

callaïs — Lewis & Short

callaïs, ĭdis, f., = kallai/+s,

I a sea-green precious stone, the turquoise, Plin. 37, 10, 56, § 151 (in Sol. 20 called callaica).—Hence,

II callăĭnus, a, um, adj., turquoisecolored: lacernae, Mart. 14, 139.—Subst.: callăĭna, ae, f., a precious stone of a pale-green color, Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 110 sq.; 37, 10, 54, § 147; cf. id. 37, 10, 56, § 151.

In the wild

callais Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p61
Callais Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p5

Where it came from

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