The corpus record — Latin

xystĭcus

xystĭcus · adj

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

xystĭcus, a, um, adj., = custiko/s,

I of or belonging to a xystus.

I Adj.: vanitas, i. e. of the athletes, Tert. Pud. 7 med.—

II Subst.: xystĭci, ōrum, m., athletes, Suet. Aug. 45; Dig. 3, 2, 4; Inscr. Grut. 332, 6.

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.