The corpus record — Latin

xiphion

xiphion · n

sword-flag

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

xĭphĭon — Lewis & Short

xĭphĭon, ii, n., = cifi/on,

I sword-flag, gladiole, Plin. 25, 11, 88, § 137.

In the wild

xiphion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.11.p5
xiphion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.25.p92
xiphio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p2
xiphi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p16
xiphio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.10.p4
xiphion Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.11.p5

6 of 8 attestations shown.

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.