The corpus record — Latin

caltha

caltha · f

a strongsmelling yellow flower

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

caltha — Lewis & Short

caltha, ae, f. (calthum, i, n., xa/lkanqos],

Prud. Cath. 5, 114) [cf. Gr.

I a strongsmelling yellow flower, prob. our pot marigold: Calendula officinalis, Linn.; Plin. 21, 6, 15, § 28; Verg. E. 2, 50; Col. 10, 97; 10, 310.

In the wild

calthas Ovid, Fasti 4.437
calthas Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2
caltha Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.6.p2
caltha Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p21
caltha Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.6.p2

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caltha (scan p. 112; entry #1578).

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