Cassĭtĕrĭdes — Lewis & Short
Cassĭtĕrĭdes, um, f., = *kassiteri/des,
I the tin-islands, Cassiterides, now prob. the Scilly Islands, Mel. 3, 6, 2; Plin. 4, 22, 36, § 119; named from the tin found there; v. cassiterum.
The corpus record — Latin
Cassiterides
Cassiterides · f
the tin-islands
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Cassiterides Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.22.p4
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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