clavicula
From LSJ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
clāvĭcŭla: ae, f.
dim. id. *
I A small key, Caes. Germ. Arat. 195.—
II A tendril, by which the vine clings to its props, Cic. Sen. 15, 52; id. N. D. 2, 47, 120; Col. 4, 6, 2; Plin. 23, prooem. § 5.—
III A bar, bolt of the door, Hyg. Grom. 55.—Hence, clāvĭcŭlārĭus, ĭi, m., a key-keeper, jailer, Firm. Math. 3, 66.
