The corpus record — Latin

zopissa

zopissa · f

pitch mixed with wax

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

zōpissa — Lewis & Short

zōpissa, ae, f., = zw/pissa,

I pitch mixed with wax, which was scraped off from ships, Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 56; 24, 7, 26, § 41.

In the wild

zopissa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p26
zopissa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p27
zopissam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.12.p1
Zopissam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.7.p4

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.