Latin

Noun

capisterium

1. vessel used for cleaning, separating seed grain from the rest

Descendants

• Italian: capisteo
• Romanian: căpistere

References

• capisterium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CAPISTERIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “capisterium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• capisterium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin