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operculum

operculum · n

a cover

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

ŏpercŭlum — Lewis & Short

ŏpercŭlum, i, n.operio,

I a cover, covering, lid (class.): quibus operibantur operimenta et pallia opercula dixerunt, Varr. L. L. 5, § 167 Müll.: aspera arteria tegitur quasi quodam operculo, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136; Col. 8, 8, 7: sorba in urceolos picatos adicito et opercula picata imponito, id. 12, 16, 4: ambulatorium, a movable cover, Plin. 21, 14, 47, § 80.—Prov.: patellae dignum operculum, like to like, Hier. Ep. 1, 7; cf. id. ib. 127 (16), n. 9.—Of the covering of walls, wainscoting, panel-work: OPERCVLA ABIEGNIA IMPONITO, Lex Puteol. Grut. 207, col. 2.

In the wild

operculumque Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.3.3
operculumque Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p6
operculumque Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.7.11

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