The corpus record — Latin

matella

matella · f

a pot, a vessel

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Where it lives

Satyricon 4 · 1.31/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

mătella — Lewis & Short

mătella or mătēla, ae, f.dim.matula,

I a pot, a vessel for liquids.

I In gen.: matella aquae, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 543, 17; Varr. ib. 19; Cato, R. R. 10; 11.—Prov.: mus in matella, of a person in difficulty, Petr. 58, 9.—

II In partic., a chamber-pot, Mart. 12, 32, 13; id. 6, 89, 1; 14, 119 in lemm.; Sen. Ben. 3, 26, 2.—Hence, prov.: matellam praestare alicui, i. e. to perform for one the most menial offices, Mart. 10, 11, 3.—Transf., of a prostitute, Petr. 45, 8.

In the wild

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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