The corpus record — Latin

trochlea

trochlea · f

a mechanical contrivance for raising weights

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Where it lives

De Architectura 25 · 4.34/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

trochlĕa — Lewis & Short

trochlĕa or troclĕa, ae, f.contr. from troxali/a,

I a mechanical contrivance for raising weights, a case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys, a block, Vitr. 10, 2; Cato, R. R. 3, 5; Lucr. 4, 905.—Prov.: trochleis pituitam adducere, q. s. to draw up phlegm with a hoisting-tackle, i. e. to hawk violently, Quint. 11, 3, 56.

In the wild

troclea Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.9
trocleas Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.3
troclea Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.8
trocleis Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.3.2
trocleam Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.1
troclea Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.8

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. trochlea (scan p. 728; entry #12122).

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