hormiscion

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ancient Greek ὁρμῐ́σκῐον (hormískion)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hormiscion n (genitive hormisciī); second declension

  1. unknown kind of gem

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

References

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  • hormiscĭon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hormiscĭŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 754/2.
  • Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841] Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum (in Chinese), third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, Hormesion