The corpus record — Latin

dēcermĭna

dēcermĭna · n

leaves and boughs plucked off

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What it meant

dēcermĭna — Lewis & Short

dēcermĭna, um, n.decerpo,

I leaves and boughs plucked off; decermina dicuntur quae decerpuntur purgandi causa, Paul. ex Fest. p. 72, 7 Müll.; hence Trop.: Fortunae, i. e. beggars, qs. the refuse of Fortune, App. M. 1, p. 104, 29.

Where it came from

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

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