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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (4 entries · 11 senses)
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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• Platē, ēs, f., Platé [île voisine de la Troade] : Plin. 5, 138.
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• plate (subs.):
    1. I. A thin layer of metal:
      1. 1. lāmĭna, sync. lamna: a metal p. with an inscription was found, inventa est l., et in ea scriptum ..., Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 58: red hot p.s (used in the torture), l. ardentes, id. Verr. 5, 63, 163: to draw (make) thin p.s of silver, l. (ex argento) ducere, Plin. 33, 9, 45.
      2. 2. bractea (very thin leaf; used in plating goods): Lucr.: Virg.: v. leaf (III.); and plated. Dimin., bracteola, Juv.
    2. II. Wrought silver and gold:
      1. 1. argentum (used so as to comprehend gold as well as silver vessels, cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 162, proposito argento, referring to the entire service of such utensils in a wealthy house): plain opp. to chased p., a. purum (opp. caelatum), Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 49: cf. ib. 23, 52: also, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9, apponitur coena ... in argento puro et antiquo: to use earthenware as if it were p., fictilibus sic uti quam argento, Sen. Ep. 5, 5.
      2. 2. vāsa argentea (aurea): Cic. Inv. 2, 40, 116 (where gen. pl. vasorum argenteorum occurs): Hor.: cf. ib., vasa magnifica et pretiose caelata: also, Corinthia (sc. vasa), chased p., Plin. Ep. l. c. (avoid supellex argentea; supellex being properly exclusive of plate).
      3. 3. tŏreuma, ătis, n. (any chased, embossed work = caelatum opus): Sall. Cat. 20: Cic.
    3. III. A platter:
      1. 1. cătillus: to dine out of a wooden p., ligneis c. coenare, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5: Hor.
      2. 2. pătella: Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 2 (nec modica coenare times olus omne patella, unless the word there = dish): Mart.
    4. IV. Used for engraving: *lāmĭna: Kr.: Ern.: etc. The picture itself, is pictura; or more exactly, imago [aeneae, etc.] laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kr.).
plate (v.) Copy link
• plate (v.): Phr.: to p. with silver, *argento inducere; aeri (stanno, etc.) bracteam argenteam inducere (v. to overlay): to p. a vessel with iron, *navis latera ferreis laminis munire, firmare.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• PLATE
1.
  • s. A flat, broad piece of metal, lamina; bractea (very thin): a copper-plate, *lamina aenea: copper-plate (i. e., the impression), *pictura linearis per laminas aeneas expressa (Ern.); *imago aere excusa (Wyttenbach); *imago aeneae laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kraft).
  • A platter, catillus or catillum.
  • Wrought gold or silver, vasa argentea, aurea; or simply argentum, aurum; supellex argentea, aurea: chased plate, argentum caelatum: in castris Pompeii videre licuit magnum argenti pondus (a great quanty of plate, Caes., B.C., 3, 96).
2. v. *argento obducere; *inducere rei argentum, aurum or bracteas auri, argenti: plated, bracteatus (Sen.).