Linteum, lintei, n. g. Lino fit, Mart. A sheete: a linnen cloth: a sayle: any naperie.Nondum abluta sunt lintea.The clothes be not yet washed.Linteum cape, túq; exterge tibi manus.Plaut.Take a owell or napkin.Lintea.Virg.Sayles. Caua lintea, Vide CAVVS. Orba lintea ventis.Ouid.Sayles without winde.
Linteus, Adie. Of linnen. vt, Lintea vestis. Cic.A linnen garmÊt.Linteæ candidæ tunicæ.Liu.Lintei libri.Liu.Bookes made of lint.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lintĕum, i, n. [linum], a linen cloth. I.Lit.: linteum cape atque exterge tibi manus, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 110: uncto linteo, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 42: linteum extersui, id. Curc. 4, 4, 22: merces linteis et vitro delatae, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40: succinctus linteo, Suet. Calig. 26: sucus linteo colatus, Plin. 25, 13, 103, 164: sella, linteisque lorisque, Mart. 2, 57, 6: lintea componit, Juv. 3, 263.—II.Transf.A.Linen: Tarquinienses (polliciti sunt) lintea in vela, Liv. 28, 45.—B.A sail: certum est dare lintea retro, Verg. A. 3, 686: non tibi sunt integra lintea, Hor. C. 1, 14, 9: Zephyri veniant in lintea pleni, Ov. Am. 2, 11, 41.—C.A girdle: ut qui quaerere velit, nudus quaerat, linteo cinctus, lancem habens, Gai. Inst. 3, 192; cf. also licium.—D.A curtain, used as a sign: inscripta lintea, Juv. 8, 168.—E.Stuff, cloth, other than linen, Plin. 12, 10, 21, 38 sq.
lintĕus, a, um, adj. [id.], linen-: lintea vestis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, 146; Plin. 19, 1, 2, 8: tunica, Liv. 9, 40: Lintei libri, an ancient chronicle of the Roman people, which was written on linen, and preserved in the temple of Juno Moneta: Macer Auctor est et in foedere Ardeatino et in linteis libris ad Monetae inventa, Liv. 4, 7, 12; 4, 20, 8; 4, 23, 2; cf. id. 10, 38, 6: postea publica monumenta plumbeis voluminibus mox et privata linteis confici coepta sunt, Plin. 13, 11, 21, 69; Symm. Ep. 4, 34; Vop. Aur. 1 and 8: thorax, a linen breastplate, = linoqw/rac, Liv. 4, 20, 7: loricae, Nep. Iph. 1.
