Cinnabaris, huius cinnabaris, pen. cor. f. g. Plin. A softe redde stone founde in mines, called in latine Minium, in English, Cinoper. Galen. Plin. Theo. It is also a liquour brought out of Afrike, called Sanguis draconis, bycause it hath a verie redde colour like bloud. Dioscor. The common Cinoper is counterfayted of brimstone and quicke siluer.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cinnăbăris, is, f. (cinnăbări, is, n., Sol. 25, 14 dub., and in some MSS. and edd. Plin. 33, 7, 38, 115; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 555), = kinna/bari. I.A pigment obtained from the gum of the dragon's-blood tree, dragon's-blood, Plin. 33, 7, 39, 117; 13, 1, 2, 7.—Abl. cinnabari, Plin. 29, 1, 8, 25; 29, 4, 19, 66.—II. Some erroneously give this name to cinnabar, vermilion (minium), Plin. 33, 7, 38, 115 sqq.