This library is built in the open.
If you spot an error, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — we’d love to hear from you.
Marcus Porcius Cato; Varro; Columella; Palladius · 1482

Pinacothecæ: Where paintings are stored.
Oporothecæ: Where autumn fruits are kept.
Pomerium: The place behind the walls.
Fructuis: Genitive from fructus, as anuis from anus.
Compascat: From this, compascuus ager common pasture land is called, which is left for grazing commonly by the neighbors.
ἱστορασ: Weaving.
Figlinæ: Named from figulis potters.
Referre acceptum: To confess that one has received something from another.
Obstrigilandi causa: For the purpose of dragging down, biting, or resisting.
Phyton historias: Histories of plants. Thus, physicon αιτιωγ causes of natural things. For so Theophrastus inscribed his books.
Glaber, glabra, glabrum: Signifies hairless.
Luridus: Pale beyond measure.
Sybaris: A city of Calabria.
Tubuli: Are larger earthen pipes.
Cædua silua: From cædendo cutting.
Rosea: A field is so called in the Reatine territory, because in it the fields are always moist with dew.
Pedamentum: A stake by which a vine is supported.
Acratophoron uinū: I think it should be read in Greek as ακρατοφορον οινον a vessel for unmixed wine.
Compluuiata uitis: Named from the compluuia openings in roofs of houses.
Musipulis: That is, instruments for catching mice.
Pandatheria: An island in the Gulf of Pozzuoli.
Interdius: For interdiu by day.
Fricatur: To be rubbed by the fingers; from this is compounded adfrio.
Iuglandes: Are nuts, as if "Jove's acorns."
Obærati: Are those who are bound by debt.
Cohortes: Are the spaces of farmsteads within the wall.
Triclinium: Is a room for three couches to be spread.
Longuriū
Longurium: Is a longer pole a pole by which one separates horses or otherwise a long support.
Repastinari: An ager is called this when its natural state is changed by digging. More about its origin and meaning in Columella.
Olea conditanea: Which can be seasoned or preserved fitly.
Adferunt: To carry to.
Sesquimensis: A month is called this when it is one month and the half part of another; this is the eighth part of a year.
Veterina animalia: Are called those which can carry something.
Bipalium: An instrument for digging.
Medica: Is a herb, which is also melica, which once sown lasts for ten years.