ostracias

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ostrăcĭas, ae, m., and ostrăcītis, ĭdis, f., = ὀστρακίας, ὀστρακῖτις,

a semigem , prob. hornstone or chalcedony , Plin. 37, 10, 65, § 177.