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English
Noun
cistophorus (plural cistophoruses or cistophori)
- an Asiatic coin, worth about four drachmas, on which was stamped a cista
Latin
Etymology
From κιστοφόρος (kistophóros). See also cista.
Noun
cistophorus m (genitive cistophorī); second declension
- bearer of the sacred casket
- cistophorus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “cistophorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cistophorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cistophorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cistophorus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cistophorus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin