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emplastrum

emplastrum · n

a plaster

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Where it lives

De Medicina 52 · 5.07/10k
Naturalis Historia 29 · 0.73/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

emplastrum — Lewis & Short

emplastrum, i, n. (or emplastra, ae, f., e)/mplastron.

Gell. 16, 7 fin.), =

I In medic. lang., a plaster.

A Prop., Cels. 5, 17; 19; Cato, R. R. 39, 2; Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 15; 34, 10, 22, § 103 et saep.—*

B Trop.: quid est jusjurandum? Emplastrum aeris alieni, Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7 fin. —

II In horticult. lang., the band of bark which surrounds the eye in ingrafting, the scutcheon, Col. 5, 11, 10; id. Arb. 26, 9 sq.; Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 121; Pall. Febr. 17, 1 al.

In the wild

emplastrisque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.16.p1
emplastris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.18.p4
emplastrum Celsus, De Medicina 5.17.p2
emplastris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.6.p5
emplastro Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p5
emplastra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.24.p7

6 of 86 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. emplastrum (scan p. 220; entry #3404).

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