The corpus record — Latin

cantabrum

cantabrum · n

A kind of bran

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

cantăbrum — Lewis & Short

cantăbrum, i, n.etym. unknown; the connection with Cantabria is a mere conjecture.

I A kind of bran (late Lat.), Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 2; 4, 3; Apic. 7, 1; Schol. Juv. 5, 11 (as an explanation of far caninum); hence, cantabricus sucus, Veg. 5, 56, 3.—

II A kind of banner or standard under the emperors, Min. Fel. Oct. 29; Tert. Apol. 16.

In the wild

Cantabri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.3.p6
cantabris Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.12
cantabro Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 6.291
Cantabri Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.33.12.46
cantabro Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 6.260
cantabrorum Tertullian, Apologeticum 16.8

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cantabrum (scan p. 118; entry #1682).

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