squama

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

squāma ae, f

SCAD-, a scale : (animantes) squamā obductas: tractu squamae crepitantis harenam Sulcat, O.: hydri, V.: Hoc pretio squamae! Fish-scales , i. e. a fish , Iu.—Of armor, a scale, layer : duplici squamā lorica, of two layers , V.

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