acrocorium
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.kroˈko.ri.um/, [äkroˈkɔːrium]
Noun
[edit]acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension
Further reading
[edit]- “acrŏcŏrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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