laserpicium

• lasarpicium

Borrowed from Latin laserpicium.

laserpicium (uncountable)

1. silphium resin

• lāsarpīcium

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaː.sɛrˈpiː.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.s̬erˈpiː.t͡ʃi.um]

lāserpīcium n (genitive lāserpīciī or lāserpīcī); second declension

1. resin similar to asafoetida, obtained during Antiquity from an unidentified plant called silphium, probably close to the genus of plants Laserpitium.

• Not to be confused with Laserpitium.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• lāsarpīcifer
• lāserpīciārius
• lāserpīciātus

• Translingual: Laserpitium

• lāsar / lāser

• “laserpicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laserpicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.