Camphora Notae | Tabula navigationisp. 160pp.97-98'camphor'

L +1Latinitas +1 (bona)ChemicaVerba Arabica mutuataCamphora


ArabicoSanscritoOriente extremoFormosaBorneoSumatra






Structura moleculae camphorae




Arbor Cinnamomum camphora, cuius e ligno camphora paratur


Camphora[1] seu caphura[2] (a nomine Arabico كافور kāfūr, a Sanscrito karpūra)[3][4] est materies alba vel translucida cerae similis et forti odore aromatico, cuius formula chemica est C10H16O. Camphora paratur e ligno arborum duarum, quae sunt Cinnamomum camphora, in Oriente extremo, imprimis Formosa, crescens, et Dryobalanops aromatica, in Borneo et Sumatra.



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  1. Cf. nomen speciale arboris Cinnamomum camphora


  2. Carolus Clusius, "Aromatum apud Indos nascentium historia" in eiusdem Exoticorum libri decem (1605) p. 160


  3. Raja Tazi, Arabismen im Deutschen (1998), pp.97-98


  4. Online Etymology Dictionary (© 2001 Douglas Harper), lemma 'camphor'







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