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Encaustus

Encaustus · adj

burned in

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

encaustus — Lewis & Short

encaustus (encaut-), a, um, adj., = e)/gkaustos,

I burned in, encaustic.

I Adj.: genus pingendi, the encaustic mode of painting, Plin. 35, 11, 41, § 149; cf., respecting it, O. Müller, Archäol. § 320: Phaëthon, Mart. 4, 47, 1.—

II Subst.: en-caustum (encaut-), i., n., = e)/gkauston, the purple-red ink of the later Roman emperors, Cod. Th. 7, 20, 1; August. contra Faust. 3, 18; Cod. Just. 1, 23, 6 al.

In the wild

encausta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.35.p43
encausta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p2
Encausto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p13
encausto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.25.p4
encaustae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p2
Encaustus Martial, Epigrammata 4.47.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. encaustus (scan p. 220; entry #3407).

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