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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek *μολοχῖτις (*molokhîtis), *μολοχῖτης (*molokhîtēs), *μαλαχῖτης (*malakhîtēs), after the colour from the phytonym μολόχη (molókhē).
Noun
molochītis f (genitive molochītidis); third declension (hapax)
- An Arabian gem of the color of mallows, perhaps malachite
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 37:
- non tralucet molochitis; spissius viret ab colore malvae nomine accepto, reddendis laudata signis et infantum custodia quodamque innato contra pericula medicamine.
Declension
Third-declension noun.