caccabus

caccabus, ī, m. (κάκκαβος), ein wahrsch. dreibeiniger tiefer Tiegel, eine Pfanne, ein flacher Kessel, zum Schmoren u. Backen, Varr. LL. 5, 127. Publ. Syr. mim. fr. inc. 10 R² (bei Petr. 55, 6. v. 8). Scrib. 45, 82 u. ö. Stat. silv. 4, 9, 45: neben olla (Kochtopf), Vulg. Sirach 13, 3. Corp. inscr. Lat. 4, 1896: neben lebes (Kessel) u. olla, Vulg. 1. regg. 2, 41; paral. 2, 35, 13: neben patina (Kasserolle), Paul. dig. 33, 7, 18, § 3: cacc. novus, Plin. 23, 109: fictilis, Scrib. 220. Plin. Val. 1, 50: fictilis novus vel stagneus (stanneus), Col. 12, 42, 1: aëneus, Col. 12, 48, 1: aereus, Plin. Val. 2, 30: argenteus, Ulp. dig. 34, 2, 19. § 12. – ➳ Die Schreibung mit cc in caccabus u. seinen Abgeleiteten ist fast überall die der besten Hdschrn.

caccabus [CL < κάκκαβος] , metal pot, cauldron. b (w. Veneris) water-lily (Nymphaea); v. et. halicaccabus. basia caccābis dum stultus tradidit atris Aldh. VirgV 2237; ~um, cetil GlC C 6; cacabus, cytel Ælf. Gl.; lignum a quo cacabum et instrumenta pandoxandi appendere solebamus W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 42; cācăbus, urceolus, plumbumque, trapeta, patelle D. Bec. 2228; ad unius ~i grossitudinem vesice pellicula se extenderat R. Cold. Cuthb. 103; duo cacubi inventi fuerunt in campo ‥ et multa bona inventa fuerunt in eisdem AssizeR Northumb 126; 1290 in stipendio braceatoris cum juvaminibus cacab’ locat’ et candel’ Ac. Swinfield 70; fuligo ‥ que raditur a funda patelle veteris vel cacabi SB 22; coci ‥ respondeant ‥ de omnibus vasis eneis, ollis, urceis, cacabis, patellis Croyl. 104; 1392 j fabro de quo conduximus cacabum Ac. H. Derby 209; 1405 iij cacabasereas (Pat) Foed. VIII 384; 1423 cacabum eneum cum coopertorio Test. Ebor. III 100; cawdrone, vessel, cacabus, caldaria, lebes PP; 1527 ciphos, cacobos, ollas Form. S. Andr. I 202.  b nimphea sive ut alii cacabus Veneris i. papaver †plaustre [l. palustre] nascitur in aquis stantibus ‥; flos est illi albus sicut lilii Alph. 126.

caccăbus, (15) ī, m. (κάκκαβος), marmite, chaudron : Varro L. 5, 127 ; Isid. Orig. 20, 8, 3 ; Col. Rust. 12, 42.

CACCABUS

CAC´CABUSless correctly CACABUS, a cooking-pot. The statement of Varro, L. L. 5.127, vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, may be accepted in proof of the meaning of the word, however absurd as an etymology. The Greek forms κακκάβη and κάκκαβος both occur in the Comic Fragments, and the former is as old as Aristophanes (see Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, and compare Phrynichus, p. 427, Lobeck; p. 496, Rutherford).

The different processes of boiling and frying are not always clearly distinguished in the ancient kitchen (cf. SARTAGO; Mayor on Juven. 10.64; Mommsen-Marquardt, 7.636). It seems certain, however, that the caccabus was used for boiling meat, vegetables, &c.; and that it was placed immediately upon the fire, or upon a trivet (tripus) standing over it. It is thus distinguished from the AENUMwhich was suspended over the fire (Serv. on Aen. 1.213; Paul. Dig. 33, 7, 18.3); and from the AUTHEPSAwhich was probably not used for cooking at all. The material varied. Athenaeus, in an enumeration of σκεύη μαγειρικά, mentions the κακκάβη as equivalent to the χύτρα, i.e. earthen cooking-pot or pipkin (4.169 c); and so usually in Latin (fictilis, Marquardt, l. c.; Colum. R. R. 12.41). But caccabi were also sometimes of metal; stanneus, doubtless, as in modern times, of tinned iron or block tin, Colum. R. R. 12.42.1; aeneus, ib. 12.48.1; arqgenteus, Ulpian in Dig. 34, 2, 19.12.

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Caccăbus

less correctly Cacabus (κάκκαβος, κακκάβη). A cooking-pot. The statement of Varro, L. L. v. 127, vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, may be accepted in proof of the meaning of the word, however absurd as an etymology. The Greek forms κακκάβη and κάκκαβος both occur in the Comic Fragments, and the former is as old as Aristophanes.

The different processes of boiling and frying are not always clearly distinguished in the ancient kitchen. (See Sartago.) It seems certain, however, that the caccabus was used for boiling meat, vegetables, etc.; and that it was placed immediately upon the fire, or upon a trivet (tripus) standing over it. It is thus distinguished from the aenum, which was suspended over the fire ( Serv. ad Verg. Aen. i. 213); and from the authepsa (q. v.), which was probably not used for cooking at all. The material varied. Athenaeus mentions the κακκάβη as equivalent to the χύτρα—i. e. the earthen cooking-pot—and so usually in Latin (fictilis). But caccabi were sometimes of metal—stanneus (of tin), or argenteus. See Colum. R. R. xii. 42, 1.