culcita

• culcitra (see there for further descendants)

Uncertain;^[1] proposed derivations include:

• According to Varro, from calcō (“I trample”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊɫ.kɪ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkul̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.t̪a]

culcita f (genitive culcitae); first declension

1. mattress, pillow, cushion

   Synonyms: (pillow) pulvīnus, coxīnus, cervīcal

   • C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero Ch. 48:

     quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita

     (having crept) on all fours through a narrow hole to the adjacent room, (he) lay down over a bed's miserable mattress

First-declension noun.

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