portitorium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From portitor (toll gatherer). Compare portōrium.

Noun

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portitōrium n (genitive portitōriī or portitōrī); second declension

  1. tollhouse, custom house

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

References

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