spoon
spoon
subs.
Ar. and P. τορύνη, ἡ.
subs.
Ar. and P. τορύνη, ἡ.
SPOON
cochlear (terminated with a point at one end broad and hollow at another: the pointed end was for drawing snails cochleae out of their shells and eating them; the broad end for eating eggs etc.): ligula (provincial lingula a flatter spoon for eating preserved fruit with; savillum for scooping up honey etc.): Spoon-shaped in formam lingulae redactus. The handle of a spoon *manubriolum cochlearis or ligulae.
cochlear (terminated with a point at one end broad and hollow at another: the pointed end was for drawing snails cochleae out of their shells and eating them; the broad end for eating eggs etc.): ligula (provincial lingula a flatter spoon for eating preserved fruit with; savillum for scooping up honey etc.): Spoon-shaped in formam lingulae redactus. The handle of a spoon *manubriolum cochlearis or ligulae.
spoon: cochlear, āris, n. (also, less freq., cochleare, cochlearium): Cels. 6, 14: Plin. (N.B.--The cochlear was used in eating eggs and snails: the one end, acc. to Forcell., being s.-shaped and the other pointed: cf. Mart. 14, 121, lemma cochleare: the ligula was larger, ib. 8, 33, 23 [v. LADLE ]: savillum [given by R. and A.] is a kind of cheese-cake: Cato, R. R. 84.)