The corpus record — Latin

naphtha

naphtha · f

naphtha

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

naphtha — Lewis & Short

naphtha (napthas, Sall. ap. Prob. Cathol. 1465 P.), ae, f., = h( na/fqa (collat. form of o( na/fqas),

I naphtha: similis (maithae) est natura naphthae: ita appellatur circa Babyloniam et in Astacenis Parthiae profluens bituminis liquidi modo, Plin. 2, 105, 109, § 235; id. 24, 17, 101, § 158; 35, 15, 51, § 179; Amm. 23, 6, 38 (called oleum incendiarium, Veg. Mil. 4, 8 and 18; and: oleum vivum, Grat. Cyn. 434).

In the wild

naphthae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.105
naphtha Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.16
naphtha Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.17.p2
naphtha Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.2.p99

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. naphtha (scan p. 453; entry #7269).

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