orchita

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

orchīta or -es, ae, m., and orchī-tis, is, f., = ὀρχῖτις,

a kind of olive of an oblong shape : albam pauseam, vel orchitam, vel radiolum, Col. 12, 49, 2; 12, 50, 1; Cato R. R. 6, 1; 7, 4; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 60; Paul. ex Fest. p. 180 Müll.