The corpus record — Latin

haematites

haematites · m

blood-stone

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Where it lives

De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

haemătītes — Lewis & Short

haemătītes, ae, m., = ai(mati/ths.

I blood-stone, a kind of red iron-ore, hematite, Plin. 36, 16, 25, §§ 129, 130; 36, 20, 37, § 144.—In apposition: lapis haematites purgat, Cels. 5, 3.—

II A red-colored precious stone, Plin. 37, 10, 60, § 169.

In the wild

haematites Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.36.p42
haematitis Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p21
haematitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.20
haematites Celsus, De Medicina 5.5
haematiten Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.20
haematites Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.20

6 of 16 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.