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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>sēsămum</b>: (sīsăm-), i, n., = [[σήσαμον]].<br /><b>I</b> Sesame or [[sesamum]], an [[oily]] [[plant]], a [[native]] of the East, Col. 2, 10, 18; 11, 2, 50; 11, 2, 56; 12, 15, 3; Pall. Sept. 7; id. Oct. 1, 3; Cels. 5, 15; Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 113; Petr. 1 fin.—Collat. form sēsĭma or sē-săma, ae, f., = [[σησάμη]], Col. 2, 7, 1; Plin. 15, 7, 7, § 30; 18, 7, 10, § 49; 18, 10, 22, § 96, and 18, 10, 23, § 98.—*<br /><b>II</b> Sesamum silvestre, [[another]] [[name]] for [[cici]], the [[palma]] Christi, [[castor]]-[[oil]] [[plant]], Plin. 15, 7, 7, § 25.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=(1) <b>sēsămum</b>¹⁶ ou <b>sīsămum</b>, ī, n. ([[σήσαμον]]), sésame [plante] : Col. Rust. 2, 10, 18 ; Cels. Med. 5, 15 ; [[sesamum]] silvestre, c. [[cici]] : Plin. 15, 25.
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{{Georges
|georg=sēsamum u. -on u. sīsamum, ī, n. ([[σήσαμον]]), der Sesam, [[Sesamum]] orientale, L., [[oder]] [[nach]] anderen [[Sesamum]] indicum, L., eine schotenartige [[Pflanze]], aus deren [[Frucht]] [[noch]] [[jetzt]] im [[Orient]] [[ein]] Öl gepreßt wird, Plaut., Cels. u.a.; Plur. sēsama, ōrum, [[von]] [[einer]] [[Anzahl]] [[Pflanzen]], Colum. – sesamon silvestre = [[cici]], Plin. 15, 25. – [[Form]] [[sisamum]], Colum. 7, 13, 2 codd. Pallad. 10, 7 u. 11, 1, 3. Isid. orig. 17, 3, 13. Gargil. Mart. [[cur]]. boum § 12. – Nbf. sēsama od. (in den besten Hdschrn.) sēsima, ae, f. ([[σησάμη]]), [[oft]] [[bei]] Plin. (s. Sillig Plin. 15, 28 [[über]] die [[Schreibart]] [[sesima]]).
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{{LaZh
|lnztxt=sesamum, i. n. :: [[芝麻]]
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