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LNS

mantēle, mantēlis

(mantīle, mantīlis)

manus and tela, properly a cloth for the hand

noun (n., 3^rd pure I-stem declension)

a towel, napkin
a table-cloth

Abbreviations

mantēle (mantīle), is, n., and mantēlium (mantīlium), ii, n. manus and tela, properly a cloth for the hand, a towel, napkin. Lit.: mantelium, ubi manus terguntur, Varr. L. L. 6, § 85 Mull.: tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis, Verg. A. 1, 702 (v. l. mantilia); id. G. 4, 377; Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.

— Transf., a table-cloth (postclass.): mantelia nunc pro operiendis mensis sunt: quae, ut nomen ipsum indicat, olim tergendis manibus praebebantur, Isid. Orig. 19, 266; in form mantile, Treb. Galb. 16, 3.