The corpus record — Latin

ostrinus

ostrinus · adj

purple

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Where it lives

Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ostrīnus — Lewis & Short

ostrīnus, a, um, adj.ostrum,

I purple (ante-class. and poet.): supparum, Varr. ap. Non. 549, 12: ricula, Turp. ib.: colores, Prop. 4, 12, 7: torus, id. 1, 14, 20: tunica, id. 3, 27, 26.

In the wild

ostrinos Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.7
ostrina Propertius, Elegiae 2.29b.4
ostrinum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.5
ostrino Propertius, Elegiae 1.14.20

Where it came from

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