postilena

From post +‎ habēna. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔs.tɪˈɫeː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pos.tiˈlɛː.na]

postilēna f (genitive postilēnae); first declension

1. (Plautine, hapax legomenon) crupper (contrivance to keep a saddle from sliding forward)

   Antonym: antilēna

   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 1–37:

     Ita te aggerunda curvom aqua faciam probe
     ut postilena possit ex te fieri.

     I’ll make you so thoroughly bent with carrying water that a crupper might be manufactured out of you.

First-declension noun.

• Italian: pósola, posolina
• Sicilian: pistulena
• Venetan: pósena

• “postilena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postilena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• postilena, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011