aequilavium

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perhaps aequus (equal; even) +‎ lavō (wash) +‎ -ium, describing how wool loses half it weight after washing.[1] Compare to the semantically similar solox.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aequilavium n (genitive aequilaviī or aequilavī); second declension

  1. (of wool) half of the whole

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

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  1. ^ aequilavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press