- incerno
- in-cerno, ĕre, v. a., to sift upon a thing, to cover or bestrew with sifting; to sift, scatter with a sieve:
terram cribro,
Cato, R. R. 48, 2; Col. 5, 6, 6:super fricaturam incernatur marmor,
Vitr. 7, 1:incretum ( = per incerniculum sive cribrum inspersum),
sifted in, Hor. S. 2, 4, 75 Orell. (but in Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87, the correct read. is redimitum; v. Sillig. ad h. l.).
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.