The corpus record — Latin

echinatus

echinatus · adj

set with prickles

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ĕchīnātus — Lewis & Short

ĕchīnātus, a, um, adj.echinus, a hedge-hog,

I set with prickles, prickly: calyx, Plin. 15, 23, 25, § 92: capitula echinata spinis, id. 27, 9, 47, § 71: folia, id. 22, 9, 11, § 24.

In the wild

echinato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.6.p4
echinata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.9.p2
echinatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.9.p2
echinato Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.23.p1

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.