Lacinia, lacinie, f. g. A gard of a garment cut: an hemme: a fringe.Lacinia togæ retenta, aliquem retinere. Suet. To holde one by the garde of his gorone.Calcare laciniam toge. Suet. To treade vpon the garde, or hemme of ones gowne.In lacinias.In peeces: in iagges.In lacinias pecus egrotum distribui iubet. Col. He commaunded the sicke cattaile to be set a sunder by them selues.Laciniata vestia.A garment, garded, hemmed, or plaited.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăcĭnĭa, ae, f. [v. lacus, lacer], the lappet, flap, edge, or corner of a garment. I.Lit.: sume laciniam atque absterge sudorem tibi, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 16: aliquem lacinia tenere, id. As. 3, 2, 41: in lacinia servare ex mensa secunda semina, Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 7: consurgenti ei primum lacinia obhaesit, Suet. Ner. 19: togae, id. Calig. 35; id. Claud. 15.—2. In gen., a garment (post-class.): detraxit umeris laciniam, Petr. S. 12; App. M. 3, p. 138; 6, p. 174; 11, p. 263; Macr. S. 2, 3; Vulg. Thren. 4, 14 et saep.—B.Transf.1. Of cattle, the dewlap: laciniae dependentes, Plin. 8, 50, 76, 202.—2.A small piece or part: porrum et allium serunt in laciniis colligatum, Plin. 19, 7, 36, 120: folii, id. 15, 30, 39, 130: gregem in lacinias distribuere, Col. 7, 5, 3.—Hence, also, a small strip or spot of land: quoniam id oppidum velut in lacinia erat, Plin. 5, 32, 43, 148; id. 36, 13, 19, 85.—II.Trop.: aliquid obtinere laciniā, by the lappet, i. e. hardly, with difficulty, without a firm hold upon it, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110.