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Meaning of piso | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈpiː.soː]

Definitions

  1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by
    declension-3
  2. mortar (hollow vessel used with a pestle)
    declension-3
  3. dative/ablative singular of pīsum
    ablative, dative, form-of, singular
  4. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
    declension-3
  5. Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, a Roman statesman
    declension-3

Equivalents

English Mortar

Examples

“Adversus umores et subitos inpetus oculorum et epiphoras radices betae maxime nigrae ex aqua tepida lavabis et expressas sabano siccabis, deinde tundes in pisone marmoreo et sucum inde linteo intorto exprimes, tum leviter ad carbones despumatum tepefacies et naribus infundes, ita ut is cui medeberis aquam tepidam in ore contineat, et si unus oculus laborabit, diversae partis nares infundes et melle Attico continges.”

...next you will pound them in a marble mortar...

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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