The corpus record — Latin

daucum

daucum · n

a plant of the parsnip or carrot kind

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What it meant

daucum — Lewis & Short

daucum (-on), i, n., also daucus, i, m., dau=kon,

Scrib. Comp. 167; 170; 177 =

I a plant of the parsnip or carrot kind, much used in medicine, Plin. 19, 5, 27, § 89: probatissimus in Creta, id. 25, 9, 64, § 110 al.; Cels. 5, 23, 3 al. In App. Herb. 80, called daucion and daucites.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.