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Latin
Etymology
Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.
Pronunciation
Noun
acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension
- (Medieval Latin, hapax) dill
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