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What is the Latin word for stones?

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Updated: 8/17/2019

ballista -ae f. [a military engine for throwing large stones]. caementum -i n. [rough stone from the quarry]. calculus -i m. [a little stone , pebble]. Esp. [a piece used in the Roman game of draughts; a voting pebble; a counter for reckoning]; hence [a calculation]. calx (2) -cis f. rarely m. [a stone , pebble]; collectively,[lime, chalk]; meton., [a goal (marked with chalk), an end]. cestrosphendone -es f. [engine for hurling stones]. cooperio -operire -operui -opertum [to cover up , envelop, overwhelm]; 'lapidibus', [to stone to death]. cos cotis f. [any hard , flinty stone]; esp. [a whetstone, grindstone]. crystallus -i f. and crystallum -i , n. [crystal; a crystal drinking vessel; a precious stone looking like crystal]. gemma -ae f. [a bud or eye of a plant]. Transf. , [a jewel, gem, precious stone; a jewelled goblet; a seal-ring, seal; a literary gem]. lapicidinae -arum f. [stone quarries]. lapidatio -onis f. [throwing of stones]. lapidator -oris m. [thrower of stones]. lapideus -a -um [of stone]. lapido -are [to throw stones at]; impers. lapidat , [it rains stones]. lapidosus -a -um [full of stones , stony]. lapillus -i m. [a little stone , pebble; a precious stone, gem]. lapis -idis m. [a stone]. lautumiae (latomiae) -arum f. pl. [a stone-quarry]. marmor -oris n. [marble; marble statue; stone; the white foamy surface of the sea]. murex -icis m. [the purple-fish; purple dye; a sharp stone , projecting rock]. nucleus -i m. [the kernel of a nut , the stone of fruits]. pavimentum -i n. [a pavement of tiles , brick, stone, etc.]. pumex -icis m. [pumice-stone; any soft , porous stone]. puteal -alis n. [stone curb round the mouth of a well or sacred place]. rudus (rodus) -eris n. [broken fragments of stone]. sardonyx -nychis m. and f. [a precious stone , sardonyx]. saxum -i n. [a rock , stone]; esp. [the Tarpeian rock]. scrupeus -a -um [of sharp stones , rugged, rough]. scruposus -a -um [of sharp stones , rugged, rough]. scrupulosus -a -um [full of stones , rough, rugged]. Transf. [exact, scrupulous, precise]. scrupulus -i m. [a small stone]. Transf. [an anxiety , doubt, scruple]. scrupus -i m. [a sharp stone]. Transf. [a worry , anxiety]. silex -icis m. (rarely f.) , [any hard stone, such as flint; crag, rock, cliff]. Sisyphus -i m. [a robber , condemned in the lower world to roll a stone uphill for ever]. tesella -ae f. [a small cube of stone].

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