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• (Classical Latin) IPA: [baˈsɪ.lɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [baˈs̬iː.li.kus]

形容詞

basilicus (feminine basilica, neuter basilicum, adverb basilicē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Plautine, Old Latin) royal, princely

   Synonym: rēgālis

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 4.2.31–32:

     Basilicas edictiones atque imperiosas habet:
     satur homost, habet profecto in ventre confidentiam.

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   • c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 2.4.18:

     At ego basilicus sum: quem nisi oras, guttam non feres.

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   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 4.3.23–24:

     Di immortales, basilica hic quidem facinora inceptat loqui.
     Vetera quaerit, vetera amare hunc more maiorum scias.

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2. especially, in names of species or medicines:
   1. basilica vītis
      • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.2.19:

        Possunt tamen etiam secundae notae vites proventu et ubertate commendari, qualis est Biturica, qualis basilica, quarum minorem cocolubem vocant Hispani, longe omnium primis utraeque proximae.

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   2. basilicus nux
      • c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.18.7:

        Nam vir doctus Oppius in libro quem fecit de silvestribus p345 arboribus sic ait: 'Heracleotica haec nux, quam quidam cataneam nominant, itemque Pontica nux atque etiam quae dicuntur basilicae iuglandes germina atque flores agunt similiter isdem temporibus quibus Graecae nuces.'

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   3. basilicus collȳrium
      • c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina 6.31b:

        Verum in basilico quoque collyrio convenit ad omnes affectus oculorum id esse idoneum, qui non lenibus medicamentis curantur.

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3. (nominalized, masculine) Ellipsis of basilicus iactus: one of the best throw at the dice (its exact value is unknown)

   Coordinate terms: canīcula, canis, vulturius, Venus; bīniō, terniō, quaterniō, quīniō, sēniō

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 2.3.78–80:

     Iacit volturios quattuor.
     Talos arripio, invoco almam meam nutricem Herculem,
     iacto basilicum; […]

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語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

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Further reading

• “basilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “basilicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.