caemento
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caemento, caementare, caementavi, caementatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Technical
cement, fasten with mortar;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →caementum, caementi:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
small stones, rubble (for concrete); quarry stones (for walls) (L+S); chips;; cement; mortar;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...muta videre pater. LXXV Non silice duro structilive caemento, nec latere cocto, quo Samiramis longam Babylona cinxit, Tucca..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...infirmiora horum temporum templa credas, quia non rudi caemento et informibus tegulis exstruuntur, sed marmore nitent et auro..."Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...latos imposita onera sustinere non posse, quia sine caemento medii farti nec testaceo opere praecincti. Claudiopolitani quoque..."
