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English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
Other / Vocab Item | | English term or phrase: Tap | Hi,
Please, what is the closest Latin word to the English “tap”? I mean the tap you turn on to get water out.
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Simon |
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| | epitonium | Explanation:
Vitruvius (de architectura, 9.8.11) describes a Roman tap or spigot thus:
De administratione autem aquae, quemadmodum se temperet ad rationem, sic erit faciendum. post frontem horologii intra conlocetur castellum in idque per fistulam saliat aqua et in imo habeat cavum. ad id autem adfixum sit ex aere tympanum habens foramen, per quod ex castello in id aqua influat. in eo autem minus tympanum includatur cardinibus ex torno masculo et femina inter se coartatis, ita uti minus tympanum quemadmodum epitonium in maiore circumagendo arte leniterque versetur. |
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 Joseph J. Brazauskas
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