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batillum

batillum · n

A shovel

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bătillum — Lewis & Short

bătillum (in MSS. also vatillum), i, n. (batillus, i, m.,

Marc. Emp. 27).

I A shovel, a fire-shovel, coal-shovel, dirt or dungshovel, etc.: batilli ferrei, Plin. 33, 8, 44, § 127; 34, 11, 26, § 112; Treb. Pol. Claud. 14; Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 5.—

II A fire-pan, chafing-dish, fumigating-pan, incense-pan: prunae batillum, * Hor. S. 1, 5, 36 (Jahn, K. and H. vatillum).

In the wild

vatillo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.11.p4
vatillo Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 6.295
vatillum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.406
vatilla Historia Augusta, Divus Claudius 14
vatillis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.8.p4
vatillis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.8.p4

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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