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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- ātrāmentum, i, n. [ater], any black liquid:
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, Cic. N D. 2, 50, 127. I. Writing-ink, ink; in Vitr. 7, 10, and Plin. 27, 7, 28, 52, called atramentum librarium: calamo et atramento temperato
, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2, 15, 6: per atramentum et calamum scribere
, Vulg. 3 Joan. 13; Petr. 102, 13; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 236; Vulg. Jer. 36, 18; ib. 2 Joan. 12.—II. A black pigment or color, Vitr. 7, 10; 7, 4; Plin. 35, 6, 25, 41; also a fine, dark varnish, lacquer, id. 35, 10, 36, 97: Indicum, India or China ink, id. 35, 6, 25, 43.—III. A blacking for coloring leather: atramentum sutorium
, Plin. 34, 12, 32, 123; Cic. Fam. 9, 21 fin.—IV. In comic language: Sc. Unā operā ebur atramento candefacere postulas. Phil. Lepide dictum de atramento atque ebore, i. e. you require something impossible, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 102.
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