The corpus record — Latin

lapsana

lapsana · f

an edible plant, charlock

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

lapsăna — Lewis & Short

lapsăna (lampsăna), ae, f. (also lapsănium, ii, n., Hier. ap. Reg. S. Pachom. 52), = laya/nh and lamya/nh,

I an edible plant, charlock, Sinapis arvensis, Linn.; Plin. 20, 9, 37, § 96; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 25; Cels. 2, 25.—Prov.: lapsanā vivere, to live on a meagre diet, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 144.

In the wild

lapsana Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p7
lapsanae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.4.5
lapsana Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p41
lapsana Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.9.p5

Where it came from

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