The corpus record — Latin

modiolus

modiolus · m

a small measure

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Where it lives

De Architectura 16 · 2.77/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

mŏdĭŏlus — Lewis & Short

mŏdĭŏlus, i, m.dim.modius, lit.,

I a small measure; hence, transf.,

I A kind of drinking-vessel, Dig. 34, 2, 37.—

II A bucket on a water-wheel, Vitr. 10, 9: modioli gemelli, the boxes or cylinders of a forcing-pump, id. 10, 13.—

III The nave of a wheel, Plin. 9, 4, 3, § 8; Vitr. 10, 4.—

IV The box to receive the axle-tree of an oilmill, Cato, R. R. 20.—

V A surgical instrument, a cylindrical borer with a serrated edge, a trepan, xoini/kion, Cels. 8, 3 init.

Where it came from

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