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pectino

pectĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [pecten], to comb, card, heckle.
  • I Lit.: caudae setas, Ap. Met. 6, 28, 16.—
  • II Transf., to harrow: segetem, Plin. 18, 21, 50, § 186.— Hence, pectĭnātus, a, um, P. a., combed, i.e. sloped two ways like a comb: pectenatum (so, not written pectinatum) tectum dicitur a similitudine pectinis in duas partes devexum, ut testudinatum in quatuor, Fest. p. 212 and 213 Müll.

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