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English
Noun
artaba (plural artabas)
- Alternative form of artab
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀρτάβη (artábē).
Noun
artaba f (genitive artabae); first declension
- an Egyptian dry measure
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “artaba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- artaba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- artaba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “artaba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “artaba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin