noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- food offered to idols
- something sacrificed to idols/images of false/pagan gods
- Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
- Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
- Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949