The corpus record — Latin

gypsum

gypsum · n

white lime plaster

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

gypsum — Lewis & Short

gypsum, i, n., = gu/yos,

I white lime plaster, gypsum.

I Lit., Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 182; 14, 19, 24, § 120; 20, 9, 39, § 98; Col. 12, 20, 8; Cato, R. R. 39, 1 al.—

II Transf., figures in gypsum, plaster images: plena omnia gypso Chrysippi, Juv. 2, 4.

In the wild

gypsi Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.13.2
gypsum Cato, De agri cultura 39
gypsum Celsus, De Medicina 2.33.p3
gypsum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.9.p1
gypsi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.4.p2
gypsum Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.3.3.p2

6 of 12 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. gypsum (scan p. 310; entry #4883).

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