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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- fictĭlis, e, adj. [fictus, from fingo], made of clay, earthen, fictile. I. Adj.:
si id in ceris fingeretur aut fictilibus figuris
, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 71: Summanus
, id. Div. 1, 10, 16: vasa
, id. Att. 6, 1, 13: pocula
, Tib. 1, 1, 39: dolia
, Plin. 35, 12, 46, 158: olla rudis fictilis, Varr. ap. Non. p. 223.—Jestingly applied to labelled wine-bottles: ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistolas, Pice signatas
, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 14.—II. Subst.: fic-tĭle, is, and more freq. in plur., fictĭlĭa, ĭum, n. A. An earthen vessel: balsamum novo fictili conditur
, Plin. 12, 25, 54, 116; 29, 6, 39, 134: omnia fictilibus (ponuntur)
, Ov. M. 8, 670; Juv. 3, 168; 10, 26.—B. Earthen figures of deities: antefixa fictilia deorum Romanorum
, Liv. 34, 4, 4; cf. Plin. 34, 7, 16, 34; 35, 12, 45, 157.
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