mulctra

Latin

Etymology

A variant of mulctrum, from mulg(eō)- (“to milk”) +‎ -trum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmulk.tra/, [ˈmʊɫ̪kt̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmulk.tra/, [ˈmulkt̪rä]

Noun

mulctra f (genitive mulctrae); first declension

1. milk-pail
2. (metonymically) cow's milk

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mulctra	mulctrae
genitive	mulctrae	mulctrārum
dative	mulctrae	mulctrīs
accusative	mulctram	mulctrās
ablative	mulctrā	mulctrīs
vocative	mulctra	mulctrae

Synonyms

• mulctrum
• mulgāre

Derived terms

• mulctrārium
• mulctrāle

Related terms

• mulgeō
• immulgeō
• prōmulgeō
• mulctrō
• mulctōrium
• mulctrīx
• mulctūra
• mulctus

References

• “mulctra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mulctra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mulctra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mulctra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers