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The corpus record — Latin

cătăphractes

cătăphractes · m

a coat of mail furnished with iron scales

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What it meant

cătăphractes — Lewis & Short

cătăphractes or -ta, ae, m., = katafrakth/s,

I a coat of mail furnished with iron scales, Tac. H. 1, 79; Veg. Mil. 1, 20; acc. cataphracten, Tert. Pall. 4.

Where it came from

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

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