The corpus record — Latin

mallo

mallo · m

The stem

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What it meant

1. mallo — Lewis & Short

mallo, ōnis, m., = mallo/s.

I The stem of onions (post-class.): mallonem caeparum, id est calamos siccos, unde fasces dependent, Veg. Vet. 2, 60; 1, 63.—

II A kind of tumor on the knees in animals, Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1.

2. mallö — Walde–Hofmann

mallö, -ónis m. „die getrockneten bündelartigen Stengel der Zwiebeln“ (seit Pelagon.); „Geschwulst am Knie“ (Chiron, Veg.): unsicherer Herkunft, wohl Fremdwort. Die Herleitung aus gr. uoAAdög m. „Wollflocke, Locke“ (Weise 32, Saalfeld 656) oder aus einer nicht belegten Abltg. *uaAAdiv liegt nahe, läßt aber die Bed.-Entw. unklar. Das Wort ist nach Ihm (zu Pelagon. 168) in italien. mal/o „Hülse“, malloco „Klumpen, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mallö, p. 922]

Where it came from

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