The corpus record — Latin

galactites

galactites · m

a precious stone of a milk-white color

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

gălactītes — Lewis & Short

gălactītes, ae, m., and gălactītis, ĭdis, f., = galakti/ths and galakti=tis,

I a precious stone of a milk-white color, otherwise unknown, milk-stone, Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162. —Called also gălaxias, ae, m., = galaci/as, id. ib.

In the wild

Galactitis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p8
galactiten Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p8
galactitis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p64
galactiten Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p8

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.