mēcōnĭum — Lewis & Short
mēcōnĭum, ii, n., = mhkw/nion.
I Poppy-juice, Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 202; 25, 12, 91, § 142.—
II A plant, called also peplis, Plin. 27, 12, 93, § 119.—
III The excrements of new-born children, Plin. 28, 4, 13, § 52.
The corpus record — Latin
meconium
meconium · n
Poppy-juice
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- meconio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.12
- meconium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p17
- meconium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.18.p3
- meconion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p5
- Meconio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p85
- meconii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.12
6 of 15 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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