Talk:polyspaston

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polyspaston

Not in any Latin dictionary I have access to. SemperBlotto 07:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Appears in the works of Vitruvius (De architectura), and in some early modern texts such as this one [1]. Not confident enough in my fragmentary Latin to verify the sense. -- Visviva 09:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

OK. It is nicely formatted - perhaps the contributor could concentrate on the very many ordinary Latin words that we are missing (not that we can tell people what they should do!). SemperBlotto 09:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, we all come here for different reasons. Myself, I spent a great deal of time creating entries for things like the Korean name for the red-crested pochard before deciding that I should probably make sure we had an entry for "red" first. :-) -- Visviva 06:15, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

It also appears in Lewis & Short's Dictionary, with approximately the same definition. --EncycloPetey 05:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)