The corpus record — Latin

germinatio

germinatio · f

a sprouting forth

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 26 · 0.66/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k

What it meant

germĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

germĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.germino,

I a sprouting forth, budding, germination.

I Lit.: palmitis, Col. 4, 24, 18: tria tempora germinationis, Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 134; cf. id. 16, 25, 41, § 98.—In plur., Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 16. —

II Transf., concr., a sprout, shoot: accumuletur germinatio terrā, donec robur planta capiat, Plin. 17, 17, 28, § 124.

In the wild

germinationes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.41
germinationem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.2.p1
germinatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.23.p2
germinatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.11.p6
germinatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.14.p4
germinationis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.15.p2

6 of 28 attestations shown.

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.