dēcăcūmĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short
dēcăcūmĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.decacumino,
I a lopping, cutting off the top:
cupressi, piceae, cedri,Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 236.
The corpus record — Latin
decacuminatio
decacuminatio · f
a lopping, cutting off the top
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- decacuminatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p11
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.