The corpus record — Latin

mantele

mantele · n

a towel, napkin

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

mantēle — Lewis & Short

mantēle (mantīle), is, n., and mantēlĭum (mantīlĭum), ii, n.manus and tela, properly a cloth for the hand,

I a towel, napkin.

I Lit.: mantelium, ubi manus terguntur, Varr. L. L. 6, § 85 Müll.: tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis, Verg. A. 1, 702 (v. l. mantilia); id. G. 4, 377; Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.—

II Transf., a table-cloth (postclass.): mantelia nunc pro operiendis mensis sunt: quae, ut nomen ipsum indicat, olim tergendis manibus praebebantur, Isid. Orig. 19, 266; in form mantile, Treb. Galb. 16, 3.

In the wild

mantelia Vergil, Aeneid 1.702
mantelia Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 37
mantelia Vergil, Georgicon 4.377
mantelia Statius, Silvae 4.9.25
mantelia Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 27
mantelia Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 12

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mantéle (scan p. 409; entry #6517).

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