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pastinum

pastinum · n

a kind of two-pronged dibble

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

pastĭnum — Lewis & Short

pastĭnum, i, n.,

I a kind of two-pronged dibble, for preparing the ground and for setting plants with: pastinum vocant agricolae ferramentum bifurcum, quo semina panguntur. Col. 3, 18. 1, and 6.—

II Transf.

A The act of digging up and trenching the ground: pastinum fieri nunc tempus est, Pall. 2, 10, 1.—

B In plur., ground so prepared: sed haec in pastinis vel sulcis ratio erit, Pall. 3, 9, 13: latitudo pastinorum, id. 1, 7, 2; 1, 34, 2: instituere, Dig. 24, 3, 7.

In the wild

pastini Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.18.5
Pastinum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.18.1
pastinum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.18.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pastinum (scan p. 510; entry #8339).

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