The corpus record — Latin

cassiterum

cassiterum · n

a mixture

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

cassĭtĕrum — Lewis & Short

cassĭtĕrum (-ron), i, n., = kassi/teros, orig.

I a mixture or alloy of lead, silver, and other metals; afterwards tin (= plumbum album), Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 156; Avien. Or. Mar. 260; cf. Charis. p. 21 P.; Diom. p. 315 ib.—Hence, cassĭtĕrĭnus, a, um, adj., = kassite/rinos, made of tin: lamella, Pelagon. Vet. 7.

In the wild

cassiterum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.16
cassiterum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.16

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cassiterum (scan p. 127; entry #1855).

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