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nasturtium

nasturtium · n

a kind of cress

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

nasturtĭum — Lewis & Short

nasturtĭum, ii, n.nasi-tortium,

I a kind of cress: nasturtium nomen accepit a narium tormento, Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 155; cf. id. 20, 13, 50, § 127: (Persas) negat Xenophon ad panem adhibere quicquam praeter nasturtium, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 99; poet. in plur., Verg. M. 84; Col. poët. 10, 231.

In the wild

nasturtii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p11
nasturtium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.13.p3
nasturtia Appendix Vergiliana, Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 85
nasturtio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.11.p1
nasturtio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.3.p2
nasturtium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p11

6 of 19 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. nasturtium (scan p. 455; entry #7308).

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