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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kleitrelā, diminutive of *kleitrā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱléy-treh₂ (“shelter, covering”), from *ḱley- (“to shelter, cover”) + *-treh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
clītellae f pl (genitive clītellārum); first declension (plural only)
- packsaddle
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
Noun
clītellae
- inflection of clītella:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive/dative singular
References
- “clitellae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clitellae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clitellae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clitellae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “clitellae”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “clitellae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin