tent Copy link Outline I. A portable lodging of canvass, etc.1. tăbernācŭlum (a more gen. term than tentorium, including even huts and booths)2. tentōrium3. tentōriŏlum (dimin. of preced.)4. contŭbernium (a common war-t.)5. praetōrium (the general's t.)6. rēgia (the king's t.)7. pellis, is, f. (prop. a skin8. pāpĭlio (a pavilionII. A roll of lint for a sore1. collȳrium2. collȳriŏlum (dimin. of preced.)3. pēnĕcillum or pēnĕcillus4. turunda • tent: I. A portable lodging of canvass, etc.: 1. tăbernācŭlum (a more gen. term than tentorium, including even huts and booths): a military t., t. militare, Cic. Brut. 9, 37: the royal t., t. regium, Liv. 24, 40: t.s adorned with woven figures, t. textilibus sigillis adornata, Val. Max. 9, 1, ext. 4: t. formed of linen cloth, t. carbaseis intenta velis, Cic. Verr. 5, 12, 30: to pitch a t., t. collocare, id. ib.: ponere, id. ib. 5, 33, 87: statuere, constituere, Caes. B. C. 1, 81 and 80: to pitch t.s of goat's-hair cloth, t. metari ciliciis, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143: to strike t.s, t. detendere, Caes. B. C. 3, 85. Fig.: those who have, as it were, pitched their t. for life in philosophy alone, isti qui in una philosophia quasi t. vitae suae collocarunt, Cic. de Or. 3, 20, 77. 2. tentōrium: to pitch t.s, t. ponere, Ov. F. 3, 527; figere, Lucan 1, 396: t. with snow-white cloth, niveis t. velis, Virg. Aen. 1, 469: Hirt.: adj., of or belonging to a t., tentorius: t.-skins, t. pelles, Valer. in Trebell. Claud. 14, 3. 3. tentōriŏlum (dimin. of preced.): little t.s being made of garments, ex vestimentis t. factis, Auct. B. Afr. 47. 4. contŭbernium (a common war-t.): to see the enemy from one's t.s, e c. hostem aspicere, Tac. A. 1, 17, extr.: Caes. B. C. 3, 76. 5. praetōrium (the general's t.): to pitch the general's t., p. tendere, Caes. B. C. 3, 82. 6. rēgia (the king's t.): Curt. 9, 5, 30: Liv. 7. pellis, is, f. (prop. a skin: hardly used except in the phr. sub pellibus): to pass the winter in t.s, sub p. hiemare, Caes. B. G. 3, 13, ad fin. 8. pāpĭlio (a pavilion: named from the butterfly): in open t.s, apertis p., Lampr. Alex. Sev. 51, 5. Phr: to pitch a t., tendere (sc. tabernaculum): here Achilles used to pitch his t., hic tendebat Achilles, Virg. Aen. 2, 29: Caes.: a child brought up in the t.s and companionship of the legions, infans in contubernio legionum educatus, Tac. A. 1, 41: a t.-companion, contŭbernālis, Cic. Ligar. 7, 21: a t.-maker, tăbernācŭlārius, Inscr. Grut.: the art of t.-making, scenofactoria ars, Vulg. Act. xviii. 3: dwellers in t.s, Scēnītae (geogr. t. t.), Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 151. II. A roll of lint for a sore: 1. collȳrium: Cels. 5, 28, 12, pass.; Plin. 2. collȳriŏlum (dimin. of preced.): Ps. Macer 314 (No. 12), ed. Choulant. 3. pēnĕcillum or pēnĕcillus: Cels. 2, 10, ad fin.: Plin. 4. turunda: Cato R. R. 157, 14.
TENT Copy link • TENTtentorium (of cloth or skins, a military, movable tent; Sen., Hirtius): tabernaculum (Cic.; the word which Caes. uses for a soldier’s tent; it denotes, PROP., a slight hut or habitation, made of boards, skins, etc., but more durable and serviceable than tentorium; we often find pelles, plur., for “tents”). The general’s tent, praetorium: to pitch a tent, tabernaculum statuere, constituere (Caes.); collocare, ponere (Cic.; also absolutely); tendere (Tac., Curt.): to strike tents, tabernacula detendere (Caes., Liv.): a tent bed, lectus in tentorio collocandus: lectus castrensis: a little tent, tentoriolum (Hirt.): a tent-nail, paxillus tentorii. A roll of lint put into a sore, turunda (Cato); penicillum (Cato, Plin.).