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Latin
Etymology
From cōs + -cula.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōticula f (genitive cōticulae); first declension
- a touchstone
- a small stone mortar for medical use
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 37.140:
- etiam pateras, staticula, equorum ornamenta inde medicisque coticulas faciunt
- and from them also are made dishes, statuettes, horse-trappings and small mortars for the use of pharmacists
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.