The corpus record — Latin

tanos

tanos · m

a precious stone

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

tanos — Lewis & Short

tanos, i, m.,

I a precious stone, otherwise unknown, Plin. 37, 5, 19, § 74.

In the wild

tanos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p21
tanos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.5.p5

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.