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Latin
Etymology
A variant of mulctrum, from mulg(eō)- (“to milk”) + -trum.
Pronunciation
Noun
mulctra f (genitive mulctrae); first declension
- milk-pail
- (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