zēa — Lewis & Short
zēa, ae, f., = zeia).
I A kind of grain, spelt: Triticum spelta, Linn. (pure Lat. alica); Plin. 18, 8, 19, § 81 sq.; Hier. in Isa. 9, 28, 25; id. in Ezech. 4, 9.—
II A kind of rosemary, App. Herb. 97.
The corpus record — Latin
zea
zea · f
A kind of grain
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- zeae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p2
- zea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.18.p21
- zea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.11.p6
- zea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.10.p3
- zea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.11.p5
- zea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.8.p1
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.