caelatura

English

Noun

caelatura (uncountable)

1. (rare, obsolete) The art of producing decorative metalwork other than statuary, such as reliefs, intaglios, engravings, and chasing.
   • 1898, A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 125:

     Caelatura (toreuma, τορευτική), however, in its commonest acceptation, is goldsmith's work applied to the decoration of vessels either in intaglio, relief, or the flat.

   • 1880, Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica, Revised and Amended:

     A branch of art allied to the cælatura is that of die-sinking and gem-engraving.

Latin

Participle

caelātūra

1. inflection of caelātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

caelātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of caelātūrus

References

• “caelatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caelatura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caelatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caelatura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caelatura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin