celtis.
a tree, considered to be the hackberry
Meaning & usage
a tree, considered to be the hackberry
chisel
Where this word comes from
Transcription of some African word not used in Latin for the plant. Spurious word in the sense of a chisel in the Vulgate, Book of Job, 19:24, for correct certē, after which some Medieval Latin compositions used it. In a 19ᵗʰ-century edition of Mulomedicina Chironis, also introduced as a bad conjecture for the second half of a new diminutive secūricella of secūricula, diminutive of secūris (“hatchet”).
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