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sandaraca

sandaraca · f

Sandarach

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Where it lives

De Medicina 16 · 1.56/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k

What it meant

1. sandărăca — Lewis & Short

sandărăca (sandĕrăca and san-dărăcha), ae, f., = sandara/kh (sandara/xh).

I Sandarach, a red coloring matter, Plin. 34, 18, 56, § 178; 35, 6, 22, § 39; Vitr. 7, 12; 12, 8, 3; Paul. ex Fest. p. 324 Müll.—

II Bee-bread, also called cerinthus and erithace. Plin. 11, 7, 7, § 17.

2. sandaraca — Walde–Hofmann

sandaraca, -ae ,Bienenbrot* (seit Plin. nat): aus gr. cavbapdkm f. „rotes Erz“ (asiat. Lw.). 1. sandyx, -Jcis f. „Mennig“ (seit Verg.): aus gr. odvbu£ (-ıE) ds. (asiat. Lw.). 2. sandyx (-iz), -icis f. „Mennig; Pflanze mit roter Blüte; lydisches Frauenkleid; ein Kasten“ (-&- Prop., -ü- Gratt): — Lw. aus gr. odvduE (savölxkıvog, savdukıov Pap.), dies aus dem Semit. (assyr. sämtu, sändu „roter Stein"). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sandaraca, p. 1380]

In the wild

sandaracae Celsus, De Medicina 5.22.p6
Sandaracam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.6.p9
sandaraca Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.34.p61
sandaracae Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p13
sandaraca Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.11.p7
sandaraca Celsus, De Medicina 5.7

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sandaraca (scan p. 1380; entry #2412).

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