Tela, relæ, f. g. Ouid.The webbe of cloth.Domus plena telarum. Ci. Discreuerat telas tenui auro.Virg.She hadde wrought the clothes with sittall threedes of golde.Percurrere pectine telas. Vig. To weane.Inter textas telas retexere. Sta. Telam exordri. Plau. To begin a busmesse.Tenuem texens sublimis aranca telam. Catull. Telamones.Images that beare vp pillers or postes.Telephion.An hearbe that Ruellius taketh to bee Faba Inuersa, or, Crassula minor. Musa thinketh it a kinde of Anthillis. Some take it to be Drpin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tēla, ae, f. [prob. contr. from texia, from texo; cf. ala, from axilla; mala, from maxilla, Cic. Or. 45, 153], a web.I.Lit.: texentem telam studiose ipsam offendimus, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 44: Penelope telam retexens, Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95: tenui telas discreverat auro, Verg. A. 4, 264; 11, 75: vetus in telā deducitur argumentum, Ov. M. 6, 69: commenta retexere tela, Stat. S. 3, 5, 9; Dig. 32, 1, 69; 34, 2, 22: lanā et telā victum quaeritans, Ter. And. 1, 1, 48; cf.: assiduis exercet bracchia telis, Ov. F. 4, 699: antiquas exercet telas, id. M. 6, 145: plena domus telarum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 26, 59.—Of a spider's web: deiciamque eorum (araneorum) omnis telas, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 25; Cat. 68, 49; Mart. 8, 33, 15; Juv. 14, 61.—B.Transf.1.The threads that run lengthwise in the loom, the warp (syn.: stamen, trama), Tib. 1, 6, 79: licia telae Addere, Verg. G. 1, 285; 3, 562; Ov. M. 4, 275; 6, 54 sq.—2.A weaver's beam, yarn-beam; also, a loom, Cato, R. R. 10, 5; 14, 2; Ov. M. 4, 35; 6, 576. — II.Trop., a web, i. e. a plan, design: exorsa haec tela non male omnino mihi est, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 116: ad detexundam telam, id. Ps. 1, 4, 7: quamquam ea tela texitur et ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi, ut, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 226.