There is a rarish word arrugia in Lewis & Short that is glossed as 'a shaft and pit in a gold mine'; it's a hapax in Pliny. It is suggested that the word may be related to runco 'to weed', runcina, Greek orusso 'to dig', oruxo 'to dig'.

[Addendum / edit: added gloss for runco.]

Last edited by zmjezhd; 11/30/05 07:40 PM.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.