The corpus record — Latin

fidelia

fidelia · f

an earthen vessel

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Where it lives

Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k

What it meant

fĭdēlĭa — Lewis & Short

fĭdēlĭa, ae, f.,

I an earthen vessel, pot.

I In gen., Col. 12, 58, 1; 12, 13, 2; for wine: tumet alba fidelia vino, Pers. 3, 22; in paronomasia with Fides: O Fides, mulsi plenam faciam tibi fideliam, id. Aul. 4, 2, 15.—

II Esp., a pail of whitewash.— Prov.: de eadem fidelia duos parietes dealbare, i. e. to kill two birds with one stone, to reach two ends by one action, Cur. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29 fin.

In the wild

fideliam Plautus, Aulularia 4.2

Where it came from

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