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..."- P
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..." - G
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..."
