Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Nasiterna

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. 

NASITER'NA. A vessel which appears to have been very similar in use and character to our watering-pot, employed by the ancients for watering the race-course; in gardens and vineyards, for watering the ground to lay the dust before a house, and similar purposes. (Festus s. v. Cato, R. R. x. 2. Plaut. Stich. ii. 3. 28.) It is formed from nasus, a nose or spout, with an augmentative termination, like cisterna from cista, thus meaning a vessel with a very long spout, and not with three spouts or three handles, as some have imagined.