The corpus record — Latin

cerussa

cerussa · f

white-lead

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
De Medicina 33 · 3.22/10k
Mostellaria 3 · 3.12/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Naturalis Historia 24 · 0.61/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

cērussa — Lewis & Short

cērussa, ae. f.,

I white-lead, ceruse (used by painters, and by women for making the skin white; also in medicine, and in large doses as a poison), Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 129; 34, 18, 54, § 175 sq.; Vitr. 7, 12, 1; Cels. 5, 27, 15; Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 129; 35, 6, 19, § 37; Plant. Most. 1, 3, 101; Ov. Med. Fac. 73; Mart. 10, 22, 2; Pall. Aug. 11, 3.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cérussa (scan p. 141; entry #2079).

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