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hibiscum

hibiscum · f

the marsh-mallow

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

hĭbiscum — Lewis & Short

hĭbiscum (also ĕbiscum, hĭbiscus, i, f., i, n., = i\bi/skos,

Scrib. 80; 82; and Serv. Verg. E. 2, 30),

I the marsh-mallow, Althaea officinalis, Linn.; Plin. 20, 4, 14, § 29; 19, 5, 27, § 89; Verg. E. 10, 71: haedorumque gregem viridi compellere hibisco, i. e. with a marsh-mallow twig, id. ib. 2, 30.

In the wild

hibiscum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.5.p7
hibisco Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p15
hibisci Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.4.p2
hibisco Vergil, Eclogues 2.30
hibiscum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.4.p4

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hibiscum (scan p. 317; entry #4992).

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