Latin

Alternative forms

• basilēum

Noun

basilīum n ‎(genitive basilīī); second declension

1. A royal or princely ornament; a crown on the statue of Isis.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• basilium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “basilium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• basilium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basilium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin