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LNS

jentāculum, jentāculī

jento

noun (n., 2^nd declension)

a breakfast

Abbreviations

jentāculum, i, n. jento, a breakfast, taken immediately after rising, by children, valetudinarians, etc. (whereas the prandium was not taken till towards noon): epulas interdum quadrifariam dispertiebat: in jentacula et prandia et cenas comissationesque, Suet. Vit. 13; Mart. 14, 233: me inferre Veneri vovi jam jentaculum, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 72.