culeus.
leather sack (wine/liquid); liquid measure (20 amphorae/120 gallons); leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned; this punishment;
Meaning & usage
sack, bag, especially a large leather sack used for bulk transport
culeus, the sack, a punishment for parricides involving confinement to a sack and drowning
culeus, Roman sack, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 520 L, chiefly used for vinyard production and wine trading
Where this word comes from
From Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).
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