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spādix | spādīcum (noun Comm) = σπἀδιξ: .
* Lit., a palm-branch broken off, together with its fruit; spadica Dorici vocant avulsum e paimā termitem cum fructu, Gell. 2, 26, 10; 3, 9, 9.—In the collat. form : termites et spadica cernit assidua,Amm. 24, 3, 12.
* Transf. (as in Greek).
* Date-brown, nut-brown, chestnut-brown: rutilus et spadix phoenicei συνώνυμος, Geli. 2, 26, 9 sq.: honesti (equi) Spadices glaucique,Verg. G. 3, 82.
* A kind of stringed instrument, condemned as effeminate by Quint. 1, 10, 31.
* Lit., a palm-branch broken off, together with its fruit; spadica Dorici vocant avulsum e paimā termitem cum fructu, Gell. 2, 26, 10; 3, 9, 9.—In the collat. form : termites et spadica cernit assidua,Amm. 24, 3, 12.
* Transf. (as in Greek).
* Date-brown, nut-brown, chestnut-brown: rutilus et spadix phoenicei συνώνυμος, Geli. 2, 26, 9 sq.: honesti (equi) Spadices glaucique,Verg. G. 3, 82.
* A kind of stringed instrument, condemned as effeminate by Quint. 1, 10, 31.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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