caelatura

English

Noun

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.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) caelātūra

1. nominative feminine singular of caelātūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of caelātūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of caelātūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of caelātūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of caelātūrus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) caelātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of caelātūrus

References

• “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