epitonium

• epistomion

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιτόνιον (epitónion), ultimately from τείνω (teínō).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.pɪˈtɔ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.piˈt̪ɔː.ni.um]

epitonium n (genitive epitoniī); second declension

1. plug, stop, water cock
   • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 9.8.11:

     In eo autem minus tympanum includatur cardinibus ex torno masculo et femina inter se coartatis, ita uti minus tympanum quemadmodum epitonium in maiore circumagendo arte leniterque versetur.

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

• epitonium, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “epitonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “epitonium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.