Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Laterculus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LATER'CULUS (πλινθίον). Diminutive of LATER; a brick of smaller dimensions than the pentadoron or tetradoron; whence, any thing made in a rectangular form, like a small brick, as a piece of pastry. Plaut. Poen. i. 2. 115. Cato, R. R. 109.