A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Stagnum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. stagno:

1. Stagnum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. stagno: “an alloy of silver and lead” (Glare) = stannum, q.v.

2. an area of standing water, a pool, pond or swamp, whether permanent or formed by the overflowing of a stream; a lagoon (see below); the word may include ditches, trenches, moats (see fossa,-ae (s.f.I); cf. lacus, palus; see pool, swamp, tarn; cf. lacuna,-ae (s.f.I), a pool with movement of the water); “a bath, pool (for bathing or swimming)” (Glare); see lacuna,-ae (s.f.I); see lacus,-us (s.m.IV), a lake, pond; see piscina,-ae (s.f.I); pond, pool, fishpond; palus,-udis (s.f.III), fen, pool, stagnant water; see tarn (Eng.noun).

NOTE: Greek: tenagos,-eos (s.n.III), “shoal-water, shallows, lagoon, whether in the sea or in rivers” (Liddell & Scott); = vadum,-i (s.n.II), q.v.

NOTE: cf. Greek telma,-atos (s.n.III) “water which has accumulated, standing water, a pool, pond; the mud of a pool, that is, mud or clay to build with, mortar” (Liddell & Scott).

Lagoon (Eng.noun): often used of salt water, hence located on the shores of seas, bounded by natural barriers such as reefs, barrier islands, sand banks or erosional deposition; it is shallow, and filled with tranquile, standing water; lagoons on the Mediterranean coasts may be the ‘substagnant waters’ of some authors.

NOTE: Venice, a city in northeastern Italy built upon a group of 126 islands in the shallow Venetian Lagoon (an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea).

- [alga] rarius in stagnis extra hortum ad fila eiusdem Oedogonii et Confervae bombycinaerather rarely in standing water outside of a garden on the filaments of the same Oedogonium and Conferva bombycina.

-in lacubus & stagnis aliisque non fluentibus aquis, ut urbium fossis, innatans, & late saepe earum superficiem occupans reperitur (Ray), it is [found] on lakes and standing pools and other non-flowing waters, as floating in the canals [or ditches, moats] of cities and often widely occupying the surface of these places.

- [Porus anquinus] in aquis salsis & maris quieti stagnantibus concrescit. Reperitur in tractu Neapolitano, in mari mortuo sub Baiis (Ray), it condenses [i.e. grows together] in salt water and in the stagnant pool of a placid sea. It is found in the Neapolitan district, in the dead sea below Baiae.

NOTE: Baiae,-arum (pl.f.I) = Gk. Baiai, “a small town in Campania, on the coast between Cumae and Puteoli, a favorite resort of the Romans on account of its arm baths and pleasant situation: (Lewis & Short); Baiae aquae

NOTE: Sinus Baianus, the bay between Cape Misenum and Puteoli, Italy, Campania.

- in fossis et stagnis, in ditches and ponds (Stearn).

- stagnum montanum (adj.A), a stagnant mountain pool, tarn; stagnum montis (gen.sg. mons), a pool of the mountain, a tarn.

- [Calandrinia pygmaea] herbula pinguis, circum stagna exarescentia interdum gregaria (F. Mueller), a plump little herb, sometimes gregarious around dried up pools.

- [alga] in stagnis aquae subsalsae prope Cromer in Ängliae (Braun), in a somewhat salty pool near Cromer in England.

- [moss; Ephemerum] in terra uliginosa stagni exsiccati (C. Muell.), on the marshy soil of a dried out pool.

-[algae] Hab. ad lapillos, etc. in sinubus substagnantibus et parum profundis (Agardh); it [grows] on pebbles, etc. in somewhat stagnant bays and also rather deep [places]. [algae; Conferveae] Conferva rigida] Hab. in caespites late expansos laxe intricala, in mari substagnanti tranquilliori ut in salinis, etc. (Agardh), it [grows] in clumps widely expanded, loosely interwoven in substagnant, more tranquile sea, such as in saltpans [i.e. shallow basins with concentrated salt and gypsum].

- [algae; Conferveae] Conferva rigida] Hab. in caespites late expansos laxe intricala, in mari substagnanti tranquilliori ut in salinis, etc. (Agardh), it [grows] in clumps widely expanded, loosely interwoven in substagnant, more tranquile sea, such as in saltpans [i.e. shallow basins with concentrated salt and gypsum].