The corpus record — Latin

saxificus

saxificus · adj

that turns into stone

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

saxĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

saxĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.saxum-facio,

I that turns into stone, petrifying (poet.): Medusa, Ov. Ib. 555; Sil. 10, 178; Luc. 9, 670; cf.: vultus Medusae, Ov. M. 5, 217: os (Medusae), Sen. Herc. Fur. 901.

In the wild

saxificam Lucan, Pharsalia 9.670
saxificae Silius Italicus, Punica 10.177
saxificos Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.217
Saxificae Ovid, Ibis 553
saxifico Seneca, Hercules 1

Where it came from

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

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