cistophorus

cistophorus (plural cistophoruses or cistophori)

1. an Asiatic coin, worth about four drachmas, on which was stamped a cista

• cistophoric

From κιστοφόρος (kistophóros). See also cista.

cistophorus m (genitive cistophorī); second declension

1. bearer of the sacred casket
2. cistophorus

Second-declension noun.

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