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zingĭbĕri

zingĭbĕri · n

ginger

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What it meant

zingĭbĕri — Lewis & Short

zingĭbĕri or zimpĭbĕri, indecl.n., = ziggi/beri,

I ginger: Amomum zingiber, Linn.; Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 27.—Also zingĭ-ber, ĕris, n., Cels. 5, 23 fin.; Pall. Oct. 20, 2; Apic. 2, 2.

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.