litura

From Latin litūra.

litura (plural liturae)

1. (zoology) A spot growing paler at one end.

• liturate

• ritual

From linō +‎ -tūra.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lɪˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈt̪uː.ra]

litūra f (genitive litūrae); first declension

1. smearing, anointing
2. blotting out, erasure, correction
3. smear, smudge, blot
4. alteration

First-declension noun.

• “litura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “litura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "litura", 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)
• litura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.