The corpus record — Latin

galena

galena · f

Lead-ore

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

gălēna — Lewis & Short

gălēna, ae, f.

I Lead-ore, Plin. 34, 18, 53, § 159; 33, 6, 31, § 95.—

II Dross that remains after melting lead, Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 159.

In the wild

galenam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.18.p4
galena Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.16
galenam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.6.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. galena (scan p. 290; entry #4537).

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.