A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

venalis,-e (adj.B), also vaenalis,-e (adj.B): “of or belonging to selling, to be sold, for sale, purchasable” (Lewis & Short) [> L. vendo,-didi,-ditum 3, to sell, vend].

NOTE: prostans,-antis (part.B), q.v.: (of a seller) to offer one’s wares for sale, carry on one’s business; (of wares) to be set out or exposed for sale;

prostat (+ venalis,-e (adj.B)), [sg.] offer for sale, purchase.

prostant (venales,-ium (pl. adj.B)): [pl.] offer for sale, purchase.

- liber prostat venalis, a book set out for sale.

- “prostat venalis apud T. Payne et filium, [offered] for sale at the shop of T. Payne and Son” (Maxwell).

- “vaenales prostant ex officina Henr. Knox, [offered] for sale at the office of Henry Knox” (Maxwell).

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