Latin

Noun

mateola f ‎(genitive mateolae); first declension

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. an agricultural implement
   2. a kind of mallet (hammer)
   3. beetle (heavy weight, with a handle or stock, used for driving wedges or pegs, ramming down paving stones, etc.)

Declension

First declension.

References

• matĕŏla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mateola”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• mateola in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly