ōcĭmum — Lewis & Short
ōcĭmum, i, n., = w)/kimon,
I basil, Plin. 19, 7, 36, § 119; 20, 12, 48, § 119; Cels. 2, 20; Col. 10, 319; Pers. 4, 21.
The corpus record — Latin
ocimum
ocimum · n
basil
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Where it lives
- Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
- Naturalis Historia 39 · 0.98/10k
- De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
- De Medicina 5 · 0.49/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ocimi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.12.p2
- ocimo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.6.p1
- ocimum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.27.p3
- ocimi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.10.p6
- ocimum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.10.p1
- ocimum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.10.p1
6 of 47 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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