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Latin
Etymology
Early borrowing from Ancient Greek τρυτάνη (trutánē), displaying vowel reduction.
Noun
trutina f (genitive trutinae); first declension
- balance, (pair of) scales
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “trutina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trutina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- trutina 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)
- trutina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “trutina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “trutina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin