The corpus record — Latin

testaceus

testaceus · adj

Consisting of bricks

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Where it lives

De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 3 · 1.32/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

testācĕus — Lewis & Short

testācĕus (TESTACIVS, a, um, adj.testa.

Inscr. Orell. 4353),

I Consisting of bricks or tiles, brick-, tile-: structura, Vitr. 2, 8 fin.: pavimentum, id., 7, 4, fin.: Col. 1, 6, 13: opus, Plin. Ep. 10, 37, 2; 10, 39, 4: MONVMENTVM, Inscr. Orell. 4354. —

B Subst.: testācĕum, i, n., a kind of brick, Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176; Pall. Mai. 11, 3.—

II Covered with a shell, testaceous: omnia, shell fish, testacea, Plin. 32, 5, 20, § 58; cf. operimentum, id. 11, 37, 55, § 153 (Jahn, testeus).—

III Brick-colored: gemmae, Plin. 37, 7, 31, § 106: pira, id. 15, 15, 16, § 55.

In the wild

testaceis Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 7
testaceis Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 44
testacea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.5.p5
testacea Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.18
testaceo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.23.p2
testaceae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.7.p5

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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