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Meaning of elaterium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
[ɛ.ɫaˈteː.ri.ũː]

Definitions

  1. a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
    declension-2
  2. squirting cucumber
    New-Latin, declension-2

Equivalents

Examples

“LXX. Facit bene et hoc medicamentum: Fellis taurini p. 𐆖 II, elaterii, qui est sucus cucumeris silvatici, p. 𐆖 I, cachyros animati p. 𐆖 I; tritum melle admixto reponitur.”

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CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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