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LNS

cinnabaris, cinnabaris

cinnabaris, cinnabari

κιννάβαρι

noun (f., 3^rd Greek declension)

A pigment obtained from the gum of the dragon, s-blood tree, dragon, s-blood

Abbreviations

cinnabaris, is, f. (cinnabari, is, n., Sol. 25, 14 dub., and in some MSS. and edd. Plin. 33, 7, 38, § 115; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 555), = κιννάβαρι. A pigment obtained from the gum of the dragon's-blood tree, dragon's-blood, Plin. 33, 7, 39, § 117; 13, 1, 2, § 7.

—Abl. cinnabari, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 25; 29, 4, 19, § 66.

— Some erroneously give this name to cinnabar, vermilion (minium), Plin. 33, 7, 38, § 115 sqq.