ŏrŏbītis — Lewis & Short
ŏrŏbītis, is, f., = o)robi=tis (like the chickpea; hence, sc. chrysocolla),
I borax dyed of a yellowish color by means of the plant lutum, Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 89.
The corpus record — Latin
orobitis
orobitis · f
borax dyed of a yellowish color by means of the plant
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.