A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

fictilis,-e (adj.B): capable of being shaped or molded; made of clay, earthen, fictile, earthenware; of brick; of or related to pottery [> L. fictus, from fingo,finxi, fictum 3, to touch, handle, stroke; (of the plastic art) to form or fashion by are, as of wax, clay, stone, etc.” (Lewis & Short);

- vasa fictilia, crockery, earthen vessels [pl. vas, gen.sg. vasis (s.n.III), vessel, receptacle, container].

- [aes ustum] aes ustum [quod aliqui chaumenum vocant] sit maxime de clavis cupreis [et] vetustis qui in olla fictile cruda missi in furno incenduntur et aspersi sulfure vel sale, vel utroque, vel alumina et coquuntur (Galen in Everett), burnt copper (which some call chaumenum] [be] mostly [produced] out of old copper keys which, having been cast into an unfired [clay pot], are burned in an [oven, furnace]and sprinkled with either sulphur or salt or both, or alum and [then] baked.

Fictile,-is (s.n.III), frequently in pl., fictilia,-ium (pl.n.III): earthenware, pottery, crockery; “an earthen [i.e. clay] vessel; figurines; earthen figures (of deities); crockery, earthen-ware; see olla,-ae (s.f.I); see ‘vessel;’

- fictilia in lapidis duritiem efficta, earthern vessels having been fashioned into the hardness of stone

crockery, earthen-ware.

- vasa fictilia, serpentibus repleta, earthen vessels filled full with serpents.

- in culinis divit[i]um et pauperum sunt vasa fictilia, there are earthenware vessels in the kitchens of rich and poor men.

- antefixa fictilia deorum, little earthenware images of the gods.

- [Fungus] in fictilibus recenter fimo equino stercoratis (Mich.), on crockery [perhaps brick] recently spread with horse manure.

- baccas in fictili aut aheno per se ad mediocrem consistentiam coquunt, nullo addito liquore (Ray), they cook the berries in an earthern or a brass [or copper, sc. vessel], as such, to a medium consistency [i.e. thickness], with no liquid added.