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spodium
spodium
See also: spódium
English
Noun
spodium (plural spodiums)
- bone charcoal. It was used as bleaching material or for during purification of sugar.
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπόδιον (spódion).
Noun
spodium
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References
- spodium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- SPODIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spodium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.