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nitrum

nitrum · n

native mineral alkali, native soda, natron

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
De Medicina 32 · 3.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 76 · 1.92/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. nĭtrum — Lewis & Short

nĭtrum, i, n., = ni/tron, also called sal nitrum,

I native mineral alkali, native soda, natron; found chiefly in Media, Egypt, Thrace, and Macedonia, Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 106: flos nitri, Vitr. 7, 11, 1; and used for washing with: laveris te nitro, Vulg. Jer. 2, 22; Isid. Orig. 16, 2.—Hence,

II Transf.: censuram lomentum aut nitrum esse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 4.

2. nitrum — Walde–Hofmann

nitrum, -i n. ,natürliches Langensalz, Soda, Natron“ (seit Cael. Cic. epist. und Verg., nicht rom. [frz. sp. natron aus arab. nafrün], niträtus seit Colum., nitrösus seit Vitr., nüreus Cael, Aur., nitrödes 172 nivit — nodus. Orib): aus gr. virpov (att. Arpov) n. „Natrium“; dieses (wie auch hebr. nee) aus altägypt. nir(j) ,Natron* (Spiegelberg KZ. 41, 130f., Nencioni SttFCL 16,21%. nivit, nix s. néngwit. — HyXA 3. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nitrum, p. 1077]

In the wild

6 of 119 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. nitrum (scan p. 466; entry #7507).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. nitrum (scan pp. 1077-1079; entry #1851). Root candidates: *sen-, *sna-, *sneu-.

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