A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Saint, “one officially recognized or acknowledged as preeminent for consecration, holiness, and piety esp. through canonization by one of the branches of the Christian church” (WIII): divus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. divo; diva,-ae (s.f.I): a god, a goddess, a deity; “a saint” (Stetten); sanctus,-i (s.m.II), q.v., abl.sg. sancto; sancta,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.: (as a noun): “canonized saint” (Stelten); see sanctus,-a,-um (part.A).

NOTE: D. (abbr.), q.v. = saint, divus,-i (s.m.II), q.v., or diva,-ae (s.f.I), q.v., a sanctified man or woman, a saint;

- Сaesar Ricasolus Flor. D. Stephani Eques (Mich.), Caesar Ricasolus Florentinus Knight of Saint [D. = Divi, gen.sg.] Stephan.

NOTE: S. (abbr.), q.v. = saint.

- extra portam Divi Міniatis inter muscos tempore praedicto, & in moeniorum urbis nostrae rimis, ante horrea in loco dicto l’Uccello etiam erumpit (Mich.), beyond the gate of Saint Miniatus among mosses in the time already mentioned, and in the cracks in the (fortified) walls of our city [i.e. Florence], before the granary in the place called ‘l’Uccello’ it also sprouts out.

NOTE: [Saint Minias, also Minas and Miniatus, to whom the church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated, Florence]

- juxta Urbis nostrae moenia, inter Divi Fridiani, & S. Petri in Gattolino portam, a fodina lateritia non longe, mense Februario (Mich.), beside the (fortified) walls of out City, between [the temple or basilica] of Saint Fridianus and Saint Peter on the Gattoline Gate, not far from the brick-works, in the month of February.

NOTE: Saint Fridianus, bishop of Lucca [Lat. Luca]; the Basilica di San Frediano].

NOTE: Porta Romana = Porta San Pier Gattolino = Porta Romana.