Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutra

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. 

SCUTRA. A sort of tray or dish (Plaut. Pers. i. 3. 8. Cato, R. R. clvii. 11.); of which nothing definitive is ascertained beyond the supposition that it received its name from the Roman shield, scutum, after which it was probably formed; since the word is so written by Lucilius (Sat. v. 28. Gerlach.), who moreover states that it was made of wood.