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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλίβανος (klíbanos), alternative form of κρίβανος (kríbanos).
Noun
clībanus m (genitive clībanī); second declension
- earthenware or iron vessel for cooking bread
- oven, furnace
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “clibanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clibanus 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)
- clibanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clibanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers