LINEN Copy link • LINEN 1. s. linteum. Pieces of linen, or linen clothes, lintea, -orum: dressed in linen, linteatus: of linen, linteus; lineus linen yarn, linum netum (Ulp., Dig., 32, 70, § 11): linen manufacture, ars lintearia (as an art, Inscript. Grut., p. 649, n. 4): the linen trade, *negotium lintearium (after Aurelius, Vict., De Vir., Ill., 72): negotiatio lintearia (Ulp., Dig., 14, 4, 5, § 15). 2. adj., linteus; lineus.