mataxa

• metaxa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μέταξα (métaxa).

mataxa f (genitive mataxae); first declension

1. raw silk
2. thick string or thread

First-declension noun.

• “mataxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mataxa 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)
• mataxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.