The corpus record — Latin

jūglans

jūglans · f

a walnut; a walnut-tree

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What it meant

jūglans — Lewis & Short

jūglans, glandis, f.i. q. Jovis glans = Gr. *dio\s ba/lanos,

I a walnut; a walnut-tree: haec glans optima, et maxima, ab Jove et glande juglans appellata est, Varr. L. L. 5, § 102 Müll.: juglandium putamina, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: juglandium umbra, Plin. 17, 12, 18, § 89.—Also with nux: nuces juglandes, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.

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.