The corpus record — Latin

paeanitis

paeanitis · f

a precious stone

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Paeānītis — Lewis & Short

Paeānītis, ĭdis, f., and paeānītes, en, m.,

acc. em or

I a precious stone, now unknown, Plin. 37, 10, 66, § 180.—Form in -tes, Sol. 9, 22; Prisc. Perieg. 440; Isid. Orig. 14, 4, 13.

In the wild

paeanitis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p71

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.