mulctra

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Latin

Etymology

A variant of mulctrum, from mulg(eō)- (to milk) +‎ -trum.

Pronunciation

Noun

mulctra f (genitive mulctrae); first declension

  1. milk-pail
  2. (metonymically) cow's milk

Declension

First-declension noun.

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References

  • mulctra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mulctra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mulctra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • mulctra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers