artaba

artaba (plural artabas)

1. Alternative form of artab.

From Ancient Greek ἀρτάβη (artábē).

artaba f (genitive artabae); first declension

1. an Egyptian dry measure

First-declension noun.

• “artaba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• artaba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• artaba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “artaba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “artaba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin