COT, COTTAGE Copy link • COT, COTTAGEcasa (inasmuch as it affords a shelter to its inmate and his property): tugurium (inasmuch as it affords protection against wind and weather; according to Voss., Verg., Eclogae, 1, 68, a shelter, the roof of which was made of straw, reed, branches or turf reaching down to the ground, and used by the shepherds in the fields): mapale (of which the plur., “mapalia,” only occurs, was a cottage of the African Nomades; the word itself is of Punic extraction): umbraculum (made of foliage): a small cottage, casula: tuguriolum. A sheep-cot (or sheep-cote), dove-cot (or dove-cote), Vid: COT (= small bed): lectulus (little bed; bed): lectus suspensus (hammock; with Cels., 3, 18).