The corpus record — Latin

laser

laser · n

the juice of the plant

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Where it lives

De Medicina 11 · 1.07/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

lāser — Lewis & Short

lāser (lāsar), ĕris, n.,

I the juice of the plant laserpitium, assafœtida.

I Lit.: laser e silphio profluens, Plin. 22, 23, 49, § 101; cf.: cujus sucum vocant laser, id. 19, 3, 15, § 38: laser Cyrenaicum vino diluere, Col. Arb. 23.—Jestingly of Maecenas: laser Arretinum, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4, 12. —Form lasar: lasaris radix, Apic. 8, 7.—

II Meton., the plant laserpitium itself: laseris radix, Plin. 19, 8, 43, § 153; Scrib. Comp. 192: 196.

In the wild

lasere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.27.p5
laser Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p14
lasere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.13.p4
lasere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p21
laser Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p17
laser Celsus, De Medicina 4.10

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. laser (scan p. 366; entry #5777).

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