noun
symbŏla
Meaning
- a contribution
symbŏla (sumb-), ae, f., = συμβολή,
I. a contribution of money to a feast, a share of a reckoning, one's scot, shot, = collecta (ante- and post-class.).
I. Lit.:
sumbolarum collatores, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 13; id. Stich. 3, 1, 28: sumbolam dare, id. ib. 3, 1, 34; so Ter. And. 1, 1, 61: aliquot adulescentuli coimus in Piraeeo In hunc diem, ut de sumbolis essemus, id. Eun. 3, 4, 2; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 59.—II. Transf., of blows:
sine meo sumptu paratae jam sunt scapulis sumbolae, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 22; and of entertaining topics of conversation, Gell. 6, 13, 12.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
symbola (sumb-) ae, f
, συμβολή, a contribution to a feast, share, scot, shot: sumbolam dare, T.: ut de sumbolis essemus, T.