fritillus

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [frɪˈtɪl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [friˈt̪il.lus]

fritillus m (genitive fritillī); second declension

1. a cylindrical box for holding dice

Second-declension noun.

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