The corpus record — Latin

capparis

capparis · f

the caper-bush

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

cappăris — Lewis & Short

cappăris, is, f. (cappă-ri, indecl.n., = ka/pparis or ka/ppari,

acc. -im, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 90; Varr. ap. Charis. p. 79 P.; acc. -in, Mart. 3, 77; Cels. 4, 9), and (rare)

I the caper-bush, Col. 11, 3, 17; 11, 3, 54; Plin. 13, 23, 44, § 127; Pall. Oct. 11, 4: capparis cortex, Cels. 5, 17, 19.—

II The fruit of the caper-bush, the caper, Plaut. l. l.: capparin et cepas voras, Mart. l. l.: urinam movet, Cels. 2, 31.

In the wild

cappari Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p64
capparis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.28.p2
cappari Celsus, De Medicina 4.16
capparis Celsus, De Medicina 4.8
cappari Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 9.409
cappari Celsus, De Medicina 4.16

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