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The corpus record — Latin

xўlŏcinnămōmum

xўlŏcinnămōmum · n

the wood of the cinnamonshrub

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What it meant

xўlŏcinnămōmum — Lewis & Short

xўlŏcinnămōmum, i, n., = culokinna/mwmon,

I the wood of the cinnamonshrub, cinnamon-wood, Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 91; Dig. 39, 4, 16, § 7.—Also contracted, xylŏ-cinnămum, i, n., Scrib. Comp. 271.

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.