The corpus record — Latin

Galaxias

Galaxias · m

Milk-stone

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

gălaxĭas — Lewis & Short

gălaxĭas, ae, m., = galaci/as.

I Milk-stone; = galactites, q. v., Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162.—

II The Milky Way, called in pure Lat. Via lactea, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 4; 9; Mart. Cap. 8, § 826 al.

In the wild

Galaxias Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p64
Galaxian 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.