zopissa

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English

Noun

zopissa (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) An old medicinal mixture of pitch and tar scraped from the sides of ships.

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

zōpissa f (genitive zōpissae); first declension

  1. Tar or pitch that is mixed with wax, which was scraped off from ships.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative zōpissa zōpissae
genitive zōpissae zōpissārum
dative zōpissae zōpissīs
accusative zōpissam zōpissās
ablative zōpissā zōpissīs
vocative zōpissa zōpissae

References

  • “zopissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • zopissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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