The corpus record — Latin

cicer

cicer · n

the chickpea

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Re Coquinaria 4 · 2.55/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8 · 1.02/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Naturalis Historia 32 · 0.81/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. cĭcer — Lewis & Short

cĭcer, ĕris, n.,

I the chickpea: Cicer Arietinum, Linn. (used only in sing. acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, 25, 115; 9, 39, 142; 10, 3, 174); Col. 2, 10, 19; Plin. 18, 12, 32, § 124 sq.; Pall. Mart. 4; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 7; Hor. S. 1, 6, 115; 2, 3, 182; id. A. P. 249; Mart. 1, 104; Pers. 5, 177; Petr. 14, 3.

2. cicer — Walde–Hofmann

cicer, -is n. ,Kichererbse, Cicer arietinum L." (seit Plaut., rom., ebenso cicera f. ,Platterbse" seit Colum., Demin. -exla seit Varro): arm. sise?n „Kichererbse* (Gdf. unklar, vl. Lw., s. de Lagarde Arm. Stud. 136, Hübschmann Gramm. I 490; ai. sisn& f. unklarer Bed. bleibt trotz Brunnhofer BB. 26, 108 fern), gr. xixeppoı (xißeppor trad.): üxpol. Maxebóvec Hes. (Bücheler RhM. 62, 476£., Niedermann IA. 29, 32 gegen … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cicer, p. 244]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cicer (scan p. 143; entry #2120).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cicer (scan p. 244; entry #636).

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