Ziniar

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Ziniar arabice erugo eris.


Apparatus:

entry missing in B e


Translation:

Ziniar is Arabic for Latin erugo eris {"verdigris"}.


Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﺯﻧﺠﺎﺭ /zinğār/ "verdigris".

The second 'i' in ziniar represents the affricate sound as found initially and finally in English "judge".

Latin aes, aeris means "any crude metal dug out of the earth (except gold + silver)". erugo/aerugo is the "rust of copper; the verdigris prepared from copper", Lewis & Short (1879).


See also: Erugo eris, Flos, Spodion (1)


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