The corpus record — Latin

galbinus

galbinus · adj

greenish-yellow

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

galbĭnus — Lewis & Short

galbĭnus, a, um, adj.either from galbanum or from GALBUS,

I greenish-yellow, yellowish; cf. tunica, Vop. Aur. 34: avis, Mart. 13, 68, 1: cingillum, Petr. 67, 4.—As subst. plur.: galbĭna (sc. vestimenta), ōrum, n., pale-green garments, Juv. 2, 97.— Hence,

II Transf., effeminate: moris, Mart. 1, 97, 9.

In the wild

galbinos Martial, Epigrammata 1.96.9
galbino Petronius, Satyricon 67

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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