gĕōdes — Lewis & Short
gĕōdes, is, m., = gew/dhs (earth-like, earthy),
I a precious stone, otherwise unknown, Plin. 36, 19, 32, § 140.
The corpus record — Latin
geodes
geodes · m
a precious stone
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
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.