Symbolum, symboli, n. gen. pen. cor. Plin. A signe, token, or badge to knowe one by. A tooken giuen to one vpon certaine couenaunts: A seale in a ring.Adulterinum symbolum.Plaut. Symbolum. Bud. ex Aristotele. A passeport. Symbolum.Plaut.A shotte: a collation.Symbolum dedir.Terent.He payed his part or shot.Condicere symbolum, Vide CONDICO.Ex symbolo fabulas conferre.Macrob.Cuerie man to tell his tale. Symbolus, vel Symbolum. Plautus. A badge or signe to know one by.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
symbŏla (sumb-), ae, f., = sumbolh/,a contribution of money to a feast, a share of a reckoning, one's scot, shot, = collecta (ante- and post-class.). I.Lit.: sumbolarum collatores, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 13; id. Stich. 3, 1, 28: sumbolam dare, id. ib. 3, 1, 34; so Ter. And. 1, 1, 61: aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus, id. Eun. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 59.—II.Transf., of blows: sine meo sumptu paratae jam sunt scapulis sumbolae, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 22; and of entertaining topics of conversation, Gell. 6, 13, 12.