pittacium

From Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “receipt, ticket”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pitˈta.ki.um/, [pɪt̪ˈt̪äkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pitˈta.t͡ʃi.um/, [pit̪ˈt̪äːt͡ʃium]

pittacium n (genitive pittaciī or pittacī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. label, ticket on a wine bottle or amphora
2. label, ticket for publicity of a right to enter to or use a place
3. (figurative) a public proclamation, announcement
4. a directory, index, register
5. a writ or document attesting the conclusion of an agreement of any kind
6. a writ or document confirming the receival of a performance, a quittance
7. a plaster; small piece of linen with salve
8. a patch on a garment

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• pittaciārium (“admission charge”)

• “pittacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pittacium 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)
• pittacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pittacium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers