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Headword | Dictionaries | Max. Inst. | Min. Inst. | # Documents | Short Definition |
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Libitina | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 36 | 36 | 33 | the goddess of corpses (in her temple were kept the funeral apparatus and the registries of death) |
cadaver | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 647 | 647 | 240 | a dead body, corpse, carcass |
cadaverosus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 2 | 2 | like a corpse, ghastly, cadaverous |
cinis | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1,980 | 1,082 | 366 | ashes, H. — Esp., of a corpse, the ashes: |
custodela | Lewis & Short | 11 | 11 | 5 | of a corpse |
inhumanus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 193 | 109 | 79 | rude, savage, barbarous, brutal, inhuman |
ossuarius | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a vase to contain the bones of a corpse |
pollinctor | Lewis & Short | 5 | 5 | 5 | one who washes corpses and prepares them for burning |
pollingo | Lewis & Short | 6 | 6 | 5 | to wash a corpse |
sepulcrum | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1,252 | 1,252 | 393 | a place where a corpse is buried, burial-place, grave, tomb, sepulchre |
ustor | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 6 | 6 | 6 | a burner of the dead, corpse-burner |
vespillo | Lewis & Short | 7 | 7 | 7 | a corpse-bearer |
vispellio | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a class of thieves who robbed corpses of their grave-clothes |