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pappus

pappus · m

An old man

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

pappus — Lewis & Short

pappus, i, m., = pa/ppos.

I An old man, Varr. L. L. 7, § 30 Müll.—

2 A grandfather, Aus. Idyll. 4, 18.—

II The woolly, hairy seed of certain plants, Lucr. 3, 386 Lachm.; also ap. Fest. p. 220 Müll.: semen ei lanuginis, quam pappon vocant, Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.—

III A plant, also called erigeron: quare eam Callimachus acanthida appellat, alii pappum, Plin. 25, 13, 106, § 168.

In the wild

pappum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.13.p18
pappum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p2
pappum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.22.p3
pappos Ausonius, Epistularum 22.po.18
pappum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p87
papposque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.386

6 of 7 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. pappus (scan p. 504; entry #8198).

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