hormiscion

• ermiscion, hermiscion, hormesion, hormiceon, hormireon, hormisceon, hormision (falsae lectiones)

Ancient Greek ὁρμῐ́σκῐον (hormĭ́skĭon)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔrˈmɪs.ki.ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈmiʃ.ʃi.on]

hormiscion n (genitive hormisciī); second declension

1. a gem (further details are uncertain)
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XXXVIIX.60.168:^[1]

     Hormiscion inter gratissimas adspicitur ex igneo colore radians auro portante secum in extremitatibus candidam lucem.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “hormiscĭon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hormiscĭŏn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 754.
• Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841], Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum (in Chinese), third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, Hormesion