vitrum

American  

[vi-truhm] / ˈvɪ trəm /

noun

plural

vitra

1. (in prescriptions) glass.

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Etymology

Origin of vitrum

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1650–60

Example Sentences

Similes etiam attrahendi vires habere videntur vitrum ... sulphur, mastix, & cera dura sigillaris.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

The vitrum ceratum antimonii proved often too rough a Medicine, and therefore we laid it almost entirely aside.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

Item si de eo non potest scindi vitrum cristallum, non est verus.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard

Luther sent a glass to Dr. Justus Jonas, with the following verses:— Dat vitrum vitro, Jonae, vitro ipse Lutherus, Se similem ut fragili noscat uterque vitro.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various