Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Petoritum

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. 

PETO'RITUM or PETOR'RITUM. A four-wheeled open carriage, amongst the Romans used chiefly for the transport of servants and attendants, but of which no representation is known to exist. It was, however, of foreign origin, probably introduced from Gaul, and derived from the Celtic words petoar, four, and rit, a wheel. Hor. Ep. ii. 1. 192. Id. Sat. i. 6. 104. Festus s. v. Aul. Gell. xv. 30.