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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tutulus.
Noun
tutulus (plural tutuli)
- A conical Etruscan headdress for women.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Cognate with Latin tūber, tumeō, obturō and turgeō.
Noun
tutulus m (genitive tutulī); second declension
- A high headdress, formed by plaiting the hair in a cone over the forehead, worn expecially by the Flamen and his wife
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “tutulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "tutulus", 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)
- tutulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tutulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tutulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016