mateola

From a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools (compare matia); see also Old High German medela (“plow”), Old Church Slavonic мотыка (motyka, “mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”). More at mattock.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈte.o.la/

mateola f (genitive mateolae); first declension

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. an agricultural implement
   2. a kind of mallet (hammer)
   3. beetle (heavy weight, with a handle or stock, used for driving wedges or pegs, ramming down paving stones, etc.)

First declension.

• matĕŏla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mateola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mateola in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly