Writers on Agriculture (Scriptores Rei Rusticae)

Etymon: Correct interpretation.
Peminosa: Of bad odor, said from pedor filth/stink.
Melimela: With a simple 'l' on both sides; they are apples that taste like honey, from μελι honey and μελον apple, because they have the flavor of honey.
Foriculis: A diminutive appears to be from foris door/opening.
Orbiculata poma: Apples named from the figure of a circle, turned into roundness.
Retrimentum: Seems to be deduced from reterendo rubbing back. Pliny calls it recrementum dross/waste.
Viere: Is to bind or to bend.

περιστερεων: A dovecote.
αποδυτηριον: Apodyterion; a place where they deposited their clothes before entering the bath.
Peristilus: A place enclosed by columns.
ορνιθων: Ornithon; an aviary.
πολυαρνας: Of many lambs.
πολυβουτας: Of many oxen.
πολυμηλας: Of many sheep.
Hippion: A city of Argos, which was also called Achaicum; a city of the Peloponnese, and it seems named from horses.
Bosphorus: The crossing of an ox; however, reason demands that we say bofporus.
Thracius: From Thrace; the entrance of the Pontus, because the sea flows into the Propontis.
Cimerius: Where the sea is joined to the Maeotian marsh.
parilia

Parilia: Festivals of Pales, the goddess of shepherds. Where it should be noted that in this word 'l' is changed into 'r'.
Anniculus: Of one year.
Seminios: Through semine seed.
Bima: Of two years; trima, of three; quadrima, of four years.
Portugallia V Lisbona

Lusitania: Is a part of further Spain, which they now call Portugal, said to be named from the play of Bacchus.
Olyssipos: A city of Lusitania, which in our times is called Lisbon.
Sacer mos: Is (as we suppose) the Sacred Promontory, which they now call Cape Saint Vincent.
Hypenemium: Born or made from the wind.
Palmulæ cariotæ: From caput head; for palmulæ dates are uneven for the head.
Raui: Are called a color of those who are between yellow and blue-gray.
Melanthius: In Homer’s Odyssey, a servant of Ulysses, whom his master punished with a foul death upon returning home.
Gurgulio: The part of the throat through which the lung draws in and gives back breath.
Matrices: Are called those that are fit for procreation; and mostly in hens.