melanthium

mĕlanthĭum (-on), ii, n., = μελάνθιον,

• the plant gith, cultivated fennel-flower: gith e Graecis alii melanthion, alii melaspermon, vocant, Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182; Col. poët. 10, 245; also chamomile, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 53.—Called also mĕlanthum, Ser. Samm. 30.

melanthium, iī, n. (μελάνθιον), I) = gith, römischer Schwarzkümmel, Cato r. r. 102. Plin. 20, 182 (wo cod. P Genet. melanthi). Ser. Samm. 574 (wo Nbf. melanthum): Plur., Colum. poët. 10, 245. – II) = anthemis, die Kamille, Plin. 22, 53.

melanthium [CL < μελάνθιον] , black cummin (Nigella sativa). melantium, i. nigella Gl. Laud. 982; melauncium, A. cockull MS BL Sloane 347 f. 89; acrimulatum ‥ melancium, gyth est equivocum ad cyminum Ethiopicum et ad nigellam Alph. 2; melancium, i. gith, ciminum Ethiopicum, agrimatum vel agrimulatum idem, crescit in segetibus; semine utimur Ib. 111.

1 mĕlanthĭum, (16) ĭī, n. , c. melanspermon : Cato Agr. 102 ; Plin. 20, 182.

➳ melanthum Samm. 574.

melanthium , ii. n.
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