Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Theca

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. 

THE'CA (θήκη). A case to put anything in; applied to any description of objects, with an accompanying epithet to designate the article intended; as, theca calamaria, a case for pens; theca nummaria, for money, &c. Virg. Quint. Prop. Varro.