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fiscella

fiscella · f

a small basket for fruit

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fiscella — Lewis & Short

fiscella, ae, f. (also fiscellus, i, m., dim.fiscina,

Col. 12, 38, 6, v. fiscellus),

I a small basket for fruit, cheese-forms, etc., woven of slender twigs, rushes, etc. (syn.: fscina, qualus, canistrum, calathus, sporta, corbis), Tib. 2, 3, 15; Verg. E. 10, 71; Ov. F. 4, 743; Col. 12, 18, 2; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 14.— As a muzzle for cattle, Cato, R. R. 54, 5; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177.—As a form for cheese: fiscella = forma, ubi casei exprimuntur, Gloss. Isid.

In the wild

fiscellis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.19.p2
fiscella Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.492
fiscellam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.11
fiscellas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.8.3
fiscellam Cato, De agri cultura 88
fiscella Tibullus, Elegiae 2.3.15

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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