culcita

Latin

Uncertain;^[1] proposed derivations include:

According to Varro, from calcō (“I trample”).
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”).
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half.

culcita f (genitive culcitae); first declension

mattress, pillow, cushion
- C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero Ch. 48:
  quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita
  (having crept) on all fours through a narrow hole to the adjacent room, (he) lay down over a bed's miserable mattress

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

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “culcita”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 302