1. vaccīnĭum — Lewis & Short
vaccīnĭum, ii, n.,
I the blueberry, whortleberry: Vaccinium myrtillus, Linn.; Plin. 16, 18, 31, § 77; Verg. E. 2, 18; 2, 50; 10, 39; Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 5; Vitr. 7, 14, 2.
The corpus record — Latin
vaccinium
vaccinium · n
the blueberry
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Where it lives
- Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
- de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
- Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
2. vaccinium — Walde–Hofmann
vaccinium, -i n. (gew. Pl. -ia, -órum n.) „Hyazinthe* (seit Verg.; rom.*vaceinus ,Sumpfbeere, Rauchheidelbeere*, Meyer-Lübke n.9111): wohl aus dem gleichbedeutenden ödkıydog (eigtl. Fakıvdoc, Kretschmer Wiener Eranos 1909, 118 ff., vgl. gr. Monatsnamen Bdxıvdog, Fiesel Namen 5) mit Anlehnung an vacca, eaccinus (Voss zu Verg. georg. 4, 137, Keller Volkset. 59, Saalfeld; vgl. nhd. Kuhblume, Kuhioizen‘: beide Worte … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vaccinium, p. 1630]
In the wild
- vaccinia Vergil, Eclogues 2.18
- vaccinium Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.14.2
- vaccinia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.18.p2
- vaccinia Vergil, Eclogues 2.50
- vaccinia Ovid, Tristia 1.1.5
- vaccinia Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.92
Where it came from
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vaccinium (scan p. 1630; entry #3133).
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