The corpus record — Latin

sacopenium

sacopenium · n

the gum-like juice of an umbelliferous plant

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

săcŏpēnĭum — Lewis & Short

săcŏpēnĭum, ii, n., = saga/phnon,

I the gum-like juice of an umbelliferous plant, Plin. 19, 8, 52, § 167; 20, 18, 75, § 197; called also, from the Greek, sagapenon, id. 12, 25, 56, § 126; 19, 3, 15, § 40 (Jahn, sacopenium in both passages).

In the wild

sacopenium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p19
Sacopenium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.18.p2
sacopenio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p4
sacopenio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.25.p2
sacopenio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p81

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.