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candico

candico · v. n

to be whitish

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 29 · 0.73/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

candĭco — Lewis & Short

candĭco, āre, v. n.candeo, like albico, from albeo,

I to be whitish or white (first used by Plin. the elder), Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 189; 34, 12, 32, § 127; App. M. 5, p. 168; Scrib. Comp. 237; Mart. Cap. 1, § 70; 7, § 728; Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 51: candicans vadum, id. 3, praef. § 4: gemma, id. 37, 10, 60, § 169: cardamomum, id. 12, 13, 29, § 50: nube candicante, id. 18, 35, 82, § 356: in ficticiis (geminis) scariphatio omnis candicat, Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 200 Jan. dub.; cf. Sillig ad loc.

In the wild

candicat Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.11.p3
candicantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.7.p2
candicantibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.11.p3
candicans Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.16.p3
candicantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p9
candicans Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.13.p3

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. candico (scan p. 116; entry #1646).

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