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ligustrum

ligustrum · n

a plant, privet

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Where it lives

Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. lĭgustrum — Lewis & Short

lĭgustrum, i, n.,

I a plant, privet: alba ligustra cadunt, Verg. E. 2, 18: candidior folio nivei, Galatea, ligustri, Ov. M. 13, 789: loto candidior puella cygno, argento, nive, lilio, ligustro, Mart. 1, 116, 3.—

II A plant, otherwise unknown, which, acc. to Pliny, was held by some to be the cyprus, Plin. 12, 24, 55, § 109; 24, 10, 45, § 74; 16, 18, 31, § 77.—To this perhaps may be referred ligustrum nigrum, Col. 10, 300.

2. ligustrum — Walde–Hofmann

ligustrum, -; n. „Hartriegel, Bainweide" (seit Verg. [rom. in Verwechslung mit ligusticum]): vl. nach Wharton Et. lat. s. v. samt digusticum Abltg. von Ligus; Ausgang etwa nach apiastrum u. dgl. — Kaum nach Sommer IF. 11, 29 zu Zigäre „binden* (in der Abltg. durch arbustum beeinflußt). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ligustrum, p. 833]

In the wild

ligustri Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.789
ligustrum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 24.60
ligustrum Celsus, De Medicina 2.33.p3
Ligustrum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.10.p3
ligustra Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.240
ligustra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.18.p2

6 of 15 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. ligustrum (scan p. 382; entry #6043).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ligustrum (scan p. 833; entry #1548).

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