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Latin
Noun
xanthos m (genitive xanthī); second declension
- a golden-yellow precious stone
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- “xanthos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- xanthos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “xanthos”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press