[i] argilla,
-ae [1/f]: clay; the word is derived from Gk: ἄργιλλος [árgillos]: white clay < ἀργός [argós]: white. Therefore, some listings refer to it as
‘white clay’ but, rather than being overly analytical, the term describes functional,
mouldable clay such as a potter would use
ex argillā: made
of clay
ōlla ex
argillā │ a clay pot
Septimō
oppugnātiōnis diē maximō coortō ventō ferventēs fūsilī ex argillā
glandēs fundīs et fervefacta iacula in casās … iacere coepērunt (Caesar) │ On
the seventh day of the attack, when a very strong wind had arisen, they began
to sling red-hot bullets of clay and hurl blazing darts onto the huts
[ii] lutum, -ī
[2/n]: [i] mud; [ii] clay
luteus, -a, -um:
of mud / clay
homulus,
ex argillā et lutō fictus (Cicero) │ a little man made
from clay and mud
[iii] fingō, -ere,
finxī, fictus [3]: shape, fashion, form
> fictilis,
-e: referring to anything made of earth or clay; ceramic; pottery
vāsa fictilia:
clay vessels; terracotta containers
iam
nimis multōs audiō Corinthī et Athēnārum ōrnāmenta laudantīs mīrantīsque et
antefīxa fictilia deōrum Rōmānōrum rīdentis (Livy) │ I hear far too many
people praising and admiring those which adorn Athens and Corinth and laughing
at the clay images of the Roman gods standing in front of their temples.
[iv] testa, -ae
[1/f]: [i] a piece of burned clay, brick, tile; [ii] an object
made of earthenware e.g. a pot, urn
testeus, -a, -um:
earthenware
testāceus, -a,
-um: covered with tiles / bricks
From one section
of Vitruvius’ work:
parietēs
caementīciae: partitions of rubble work
pīlae
lapideae: stone pillars
strūctūrae
testāceae: brick walls
> Italian Monte
Testaccio; also known as Monte dei Cocci; cocci (Ital.) referring to
broken pottery: artificial mound in Rome consisting almost entirely of testae,
fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, almost all of which are discarded amphorae
dating from the period of the Roman Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio
https://repository.avermaete.ethz.ch/commons_register/monte-testaccio/
[v] plasticus,
-a, -um: (Classical) adjective referring to anything connected with
moulding or modelling
> Neo-Latin:
made of plastic
In
regiōne maritimā inter Californiam et Īnsulās Havaiānās patente tanta
ēiectāmentōrum plasticōrum cōpia fluctuat, ut magnitūdine āream
Francogalliae ter excēdat (Nūntiī Latīnī: 2018) │ In the open waters between
California and Hawaii, such an amount of plastic waste bobs around that
it exceeds thrice the area of France.
“Between 1950 and 2017, 9.2 billion metric tons of plastic are estimated to have been made” – which is 9.2 billion metric tons more than the Romans ever made.
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