lotura

lōtūra, ae, f. [lavo],

• a washing, bathing (post-Aug.): pompholyx loturā se paratur, spodos illota est, Plin. 34, 13, 33, § 128; Mart. 2, 52.

lōtūra, ae, f. (lavo), I) das Waschen, die Waschung, Plin. 34, 128: übtr., lot. solis, Iunior. descr. orb. 3. – II) meton., das Spülwasser, lot. carnis, Cael. Aur. de morb. acut. 3, 32, 167 u. 3, 36, 190. – ➳ Mart. 2, 52, 1 ist mit cod. Edinb. zu lesen laturas (s. lātūra).

lotura [CL, cf. lavatura] 1 (act of) washing: a (clothes or sim.); b (body, or part of body); c (ore); d (coinage, in order to remove metal by sweating); e (in spiritual sense). a aer cooperatur ~e dissolvendo viscositatem coloris Quaest. Salern. B 180; 1399 pro ~a linthiaminum (v. depurare 4); 1434 solutum pro ~a xvj dosyn pannorum lineorum xvj d. Househ. Ac. 447.  b finito ‥ prandio in tempore ~e Latin Stories 65.  c a1307 in vadiis S. Trout supervidentis ~as mine ‥ et examinantis et eligentis eandem minam KR Ac 260/19 m. 3 (unless to be referred to 3 infra); ix d. de qualibet lada decimali [subtrahuntur] ad opus minerariorum nomine ~e ejusdem mine decimalis Ib.; 1322 in stipendiis iiij mulierum ‥ minam lavancium et mundancium per ~am aque MinAc 1146/11 m. 12.  d 1452 de ‥ contrafactura, tonsura, ~a et alia falsitate monete nostre ChartR 190 m. 25; 1503 ~as et alias falsitates cujuscumque monete et cune Pat 592 m. 1.  e nonne latus ejus lavando defluxit, / nitrum excedens quodlibet in lotura? J. Howd. Cant. 39; mendas horribiles lotura delebit, / que super nivem confitentes emundat Ib. 238. 2 a water in which something has been washed (freq. w. gen. of thing washed). b (~a plumbi, med.) lead lotion. c ? purgative potion. d liquid which washes clean (in quots., in spiritual sense w. ref. to Christ’s blood; unless referred to 1e supra). a presbitero memores primo prestare fluentem, / si sit conviva; digitos cum laverit ipse, / effundas manuum loturam D. Bec. 2589; 1200 post primam celebracionem ‥ digiti [presbiteri] ‥ laventur, reservata ~a in vase mundo ‥, que ~a sumatur post secundam celebracionem Conc. Syn. 1061; ut in eo [vase] dare valeat [sacerdos aegroto], post sumptam eucharistiam, suorum ~am digitorum Conc. I 638a; s1065 ~a ‥ sanctissimi corporis in angulo oratorii ‥ effusa, multis postea hominibus ‥ profuit M. Par. Maj. I 532.  b ~a plumbi: virtus est ei frigida et stiptica ‥, alta vulnera replens, reuma oculorum abstinens Alph. 105 (= Diosc. IV 106) (cf. Alph. 120: molipda ‥: virtus est ei ut spume argenti aut score plumbi ~a [sic; cf. Diosc. V 110: ‥ aut score plumbi; ~a et conbustura ‥]).  c pro constipatione ventris detur ~a cassie fist[ule] et seri caprini Gilb. I f. 19v. 1.  d lotura lavas lateris / scelus orbis notabile J. Howd. Cyth. 7. 11; lava [Jhesu] lotura sanguinis, / qui fluxit sacro latere, / nostri squalorem criminis Ib. 49. 8. 3 place for washing (ore; cf. VCH Derb II 329). 1322 in cariagio ‥ mine de diversis campis ‥ citra aquam de Ivynbrok’ cariand’ usque ~am de Bromyegg’ (Derb) MinAc 1146/11 m. 12; in ‥ xvj lodis [mine] ‥ cariandis de predicta ~a de Bromyegg’ versus bolas de Ladiclif’ Ib.. 4 (~a aquae) land washed by stream, water-meadow. 1298 una roda de lotur’ aque (Rolleston, Staffs) IPM 81/18; 1336 J. B. ‥ tenuit ‥ j rodam de ~a aque DL CourtR 109/1613d.; 1415 tenet ‥ unam parvam placeam terre de ~a aque de Dove DL Misc. Bk. 4 f. 119.

lōtūra, æ, f. , lavage, nettoiement : Jun. 3 || lavure [en t. de métallurgie] : Plin. 34, 128 ; C. Aur. Acut. 3, 32, 167.