The corpus record — Latin

cācăbus

cācăbus · m

a cooking-pot

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What it meant

cācăbus — Lewis & Short

cācăbus (cacc-), i, m., = ka/kkabos,

I a cooking-pot: vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, Varr. L. L. 5, 27, 36: aeneus, Col. 12, 46, 1: argenteus, Dig. 34, 2, 20; 33, 7, 18, § 3: novus, Col. 12, 48, 5: figuli, id. 12, 41, 2: fictilis, Scrib. Comp. 220; Stat. S. 4, 9, 45.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.