dextans
dextans, antis, m. [contr. from de and sextans: as dempto sextante, Varr. L. L. 5, § 172 Müll.],
- ten twelfths of any thing (mostly post-Aug.; Cic. writes instead: pars dimidia et tertia, Fam. 13, 29, 4; cf.: remissis senio et trientibus, id. Sest. 25, 55), Varr. l. l.: jugeri, Col. 5, 1, 12: horae, Plin. 18, 32, 75, § 324: gradus neque crassiores dextante, neque tenuiores dodrante, Vitr. 3, 3: pro semisse dextans, Suet. Ner. 32.
dēxtāns, antis, m. (de u. sextans; eig., wobei 1/8 As fehlt, also =) fünf Sechstel od. zehn Zwölftel eines zwölfteiligen Ganzen, iugeri, Col.: gradus non crassiores dextante, zehn Zoll, Vitr.: pro semisse dextans, statt der Hälfte fünf Sechstel des Ganzen, Suet.
si [aliquod temporis spatium ] in sex partiris, sexta pars sextans, quinque reliquae ~ans vel, ut alii, distas [v. l. destas ] vocitantur
decunx vel ~ans: x unciae
dēxtāns, (16) tis, m. (de, sextans), lʼunité moins 1/6 = les cinq sixièmes de la livre romaine, ou dʼun tout qcq divisible : Suet. Nero 32 ; Vitr. Arch. 3, 3.
DEXTANS
DEXTANSten ounces, ten-twelfths of the as [AS], not represented by, a coin, or ten-twelfths of anything. (Varr. L. L. 5.172; Suet. Nero 32.)
[W.S]Dextans
Ten ounces, ten twelfths of the as (q. v.), not represented by a coin; or ten twelfths of anything (Varr. L. L. v. 172; Suet. Ner. 32).