trapetus

• trapētum n pl
• trapētes m pl (from *τράπητες (*trápētes))

From Ancient Greek τραπητόν (trapētón), derived from τραπέω (trapéō, “to squeeze”), related to τρέπω (trépō, “to turn (a press)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [traˈpeː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪raˈpɛː.t̪us]

trapētus m (genitive trapētī); second declension

1. olive oil mill
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.519:

     Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
     glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
     et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
     mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
       The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
       The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
       So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up
       On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.

Second-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: trappeto
  • Neapolitan: trappito
• Mozarabic: *trapíč
  • → Catalan: trapeig, trapitx, ⇒ trepitjar
  • → Spanish: trapiche
    • → English: trapiche
    • → Portuguese: trapiche

• “trapetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trapetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.