caelatura

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English

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Noun

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caelatura (uncountable)

  1. (rare, obsolete) The art of producing decorative metalwork other than statuary, such as reliefs, intaglios, engravings, and chasing.
    • 1898, A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 125:
      Caelatura (toreuma, τορευτική), however, in its commonest acceptation, is goldsmith's work applied to the decoration of vessels either in intaglio, relief, or the flat.
    • 1880, Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica, Revised and Amended:
      A branch of art allied to the cælatura is that of die-sinking and gem-engraving.

Latin

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Participle

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caelātūra

  1. inflection of caelātūrus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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caelātūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of caelātūrus

References

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  • caelatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caelatura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • caelatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • caelatura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caelatura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin