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vitrum
[ vi-truhm ]
noun
, plural vit·ra [vi, -tr, uh].
- (in prescriptions) glass.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vitrum1
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1650–60
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Example Sentences
Window panes of glass (vitrum) mica plates (lapis specularis) and similar materials were by no means rare in ancient times.
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It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.
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Si tanti vilissimum vitrum, quanti preciosissimum margaritum!
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The vitrum ceratum antimonii proved often too rough a Medicine, and therefore we laid it almost entirely aside.
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Gleini nadroedd (possibly amulets) and vitrum have been found here.
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