Latin

Noun

culcita f ‎(genitive culcitae); first declension

1. mattress

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Old French: coilte, cuilte, coite
  • Anglo-Norman: quilte
    • English: quilt, quoit
  • French: couette
• Portuguese: colcha
• Spanish: colcha

References

• culcita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culcita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CULCITA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “culcita”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• culcita in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culcita in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin