The corpus record — Latin

rē^clīnātōrĭum

rē^clīnātōrĭum · n

the back of a couch

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What it meant

rē^clīnātōrĭum — Lewis & Short

rē^clīnātōrĭum, i, n.reclino; in

plur.,

I the back of a couch: reclinatoria vulgus appellat ornamenta lectorum, quae fulciunt toros sive caput, Isid. Orig. 19, 26, 3. —

II The seat in a chariot: aureum, Vulg. Cant. 3, 10.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.