clitellae

From Proto-Italic *kleitrelā, diminutive of *kleitrā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱléy-treh₂ (“shelter, covering”), from *ḱley- (“to shelter, cover”) +‎ *-treh₂.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kliːˈtel.lae̯/, [klʲiːˈt̪ɛlːʲäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kliˈtel.le/, [kliˈt̪ɛlːe]

clītellae f pl (genitive clītellārum); first declension (plural only)

1. packsaddle

First-declension noun, plural only.

• clītellārius

clītellae

1. inflection of clītella:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

• “clitellae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clitellae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clitellae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clitellae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clitellae”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “clitellae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin