The corpus record — Latin

gangraena

gangraena · f

a cancerous

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

gangraena — Lewis & Short

gangraena, ae, f., = ga/ggraina,

I a cancerous, eating ulcer on the body, a gangrene.

I Lit., Cels. 5, 26, 34; Lucil. ap. Non. 117, 22; Varr. ib. 25.—*

II Trop.: mali gangraena, Varr. ap. Non. 117, 28.

In the wild

gangraenis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.8.p4
gangraenis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p11
gangraenis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.9.p5
gangraenis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p14
gangraenas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.18.p2
gangraenas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.14.p1

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gangraena (scan p. 291; entry #4557).

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