catinos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →catinus, catini:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
large bowl/plate; main chamber in forepump; smelting crucible; hollow in rock;
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...perituro ostenderet hosti. ponebant igitur Tusco farrata catino: argenti quod erat solis fulgebat in armis. omnia tunc quibus..." - G
Galba
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...tepidam in ara favillam atratumque iuxta senem in catino vitreo tus tenentem et in calice fictili merum. Observatum..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...raro stomachus volgaria temnit. 'porrectum magno magnum spectare catino vellem' ait Harpyiis gula digna rapacibus. at vos praesentes..."