The corpus record — Latin

ianthinus

ianthinus · adj

violet-blue

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ĭanthĭnus — Lewis & Short

ĭanthĭnus, a, um, adj., = i)a/nqinos,

I violet-blue, violet-: color, Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 45: vestis, id. 21, 6, 14, § 27.—Subst.: ĭan-thĭnum, i, n., violet, the color, Dig. 32, 70, § 13.—Plur.: ĭanthĭna, ōrum, violet-colored garments, Mart. 2, 39, 1.

In the wild

ianthinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.8.p1
ianthinas Historia Augusta, Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 15
ianthina Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.6.p1
ianthina Martial, Epigrammata 2.39.1

Where it came from

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