mortar; bowl/trough in which materials are pounded/ground
Latin word, found 25 times in the texts on Socratos.
Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.170: et quae iam veteres sanant mortaria caecos.
Plautus, Aulularia 1.2.95: cultrum, securim, pistillum, mortarium,
Cato the Elder, De agricultura 1·16: … o accommodare oportet. librator uti statuatur pariter ab labris. digitum minimum orbem abesse oportet ab solo mortari. orbes cavere oportet nequid mortarium terant. inter orbem et miliarium unum digitum interesse oportet. si pl …
All forms of mortarium