The corpus record — Latin

dĕcem-mŏdĭus

baskets holding each ten modii

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What it meant

dĕcem-mŏdĭus — Lewis & Short

dĕcem-mŏdĭus, a, um,

I adj., containing ten modii (very rare): corbulae, Col. 12, 50, 8.—Subst.: dĕcemmŏdĭae, ārum, f. (al. decimodiae, sc. corbulae), baskets holding each ten modii, id. 12, 18, 2.

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.