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laserpicium

laserpicium · n

a plant, also called

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Where it lives

Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

lāserpīcĭum — Lewis & Short

lāserpīcĭum (lāsarpīcĭum), ĭi, n.,

I a plant, also called silphium, from which the laser was obtained, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 16; id. Stich. 2, 3, 11; Col. 6, 17, 7; Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 38; also the juice of the silphium, id. 20, 13, 51, § 141.

In the wild

laserpicium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p5
laserpicio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.19.p14
laserpicium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.13.p5
laserpicii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p5
laserpicium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.33.p2
laserpicii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p4

6 of 13 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. laserpicium (scan p. 366; entry #5779).

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