The corpus record — Latin

echis

echis · m

a plant

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ĕchis — Lewis & Short

ĕchis, is, m.,

I a plant, called also pseudoanchusa, and doris, Plin. 22, 20, 24, § 50.

In the wild

echis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.22.p24
echis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.20.p2

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.