dotalis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dōtālis, e, adj. [dos],

of or belonging to a dowry or portion (of the wife, and sometimes of the husband), dotal : aedes, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 30; 4, 6, 63; cf. praedia, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4: regia, Verg. A. 9, 737; 11, 369; cf. regnum, Ov. M. 4, 705; id. F. 6, 593: patria, id. M. 8, 67: tellus, id. H. 4, 163: agri, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 21: arma, Sil. 17, 75 et saep.: servus, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 72; cf. Dig. 24, 1, 28; Sen. Contr. 3, 21: Tyrii, Verg. A. 4, 104.

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