proplasma

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

prŏplasma, ătis, n., = πρόπλασμα,

a pattern , model , after which the artist fashions a thing (post-Aug.), Plin. 35, 12, 45, § 155 (in Cic. Att. 12, 41, 4, written as Greek).