sod Copy link • sod: a green turf: caespes (also cespes), ĭtis, m.: used for altars, mounds (of tombs), for covering hovels, etc. araque gramineo viridis de caespite fiat, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 9: Virg. Aen. 3, 304: to lay s., c. ponere, Tac.: to pile up s.s, congerere, aggerere, id.: cf. tugurî congestum caespite culmen, Virg. Aen. 1, 69. (N.B.--Not gleba, which is a mass of earth without roots.)
SOD Copy link • SODcaespes (gleba = a clod). To cover a roof with sods, *caespite tegere or contegere.