ĕlătērĭum — Lewis & Short
ĕlătērĭum, ii, n., = e)lath/rion,
I a medicine prepared from the juice of the wild cucumber, Cels. 5, 12; 6, 5; Scribon. Comp. 70, 224; Plin. 20, 1, 3, § 5 al.
The corpus record — Latin
elaterium
elaterium · n
a medicine prepared from the juice of the wild cucumber
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Where it lives
- De Medicina 5 · 0.49/10k
- Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- elaterium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.13.p3
- elateri Celsus, De Medicina 5.21.p3
- elateri Celsus, De Medicina 6.9
- Elaterio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.1.p2
- elaterium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.2.p1
- elaterio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.7.p2
6 of 15 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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