linteum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →linteus, lintea, linteum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
linen-, of linen;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →linteum, lintei:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
linen cloth; linen; sail; napkin; awning; bedsheet (Cal);
acc. sg.gen. pl.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...lapidem, qui ego illi speculo diminuam caput. SC. Linteum cape atque exterge tibi manus. PHILEM. Quid ita, obsecro..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...facetiarum. quare aut hendecasyllabos trecentos exspecta, aut mihi linteum remitte, quod me non movet aestimatione, verum est mnemosynum..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...adhuc vastum et adversum permanebat. Ibi super abiectum linteum recubans semel atque iterum frigidam aquam poposcit hausitque. Deinde..."
