eclīgma — Lewis & Short
eclīgma, ătis, n., = e)/kleigma,
I a medicine to be taken by letting it melt in the mouth, an electuary, Plin. 21, 21, 89, § 154; 24, 7, 23, § 38; 26, 8, 35, § 110.—Hence, ecligmătĭum, ii, dim. n., Theod. Prisc. 2, 17.
The corpus record — Latin
ecligma
ecligma · n
a medicine to be taken by letting it melt in the mouth
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 16 · 0.4/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p9
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.11.p3
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.15.p1
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.21.p2
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.7.p1
- ecligmate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p1
6 of 16 attestations shown.
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.