coticula

From cōs +‎ -cula.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koːˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈt̪iː.ku.la]

cōticula f (genitive cōticulae); first declension

1. a touchstone
2. a small stone mortar for medical use
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.140:

     etiam pateras, staticula, equorum ornamenta inde medicisque coticulas faciunt

     and from them also are made dishes, statuettes, horse-trappings and small mortars for the use of pharmacists

First-declension noun.

• “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.