Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tina

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. 

TINA. A vessel in which wine was brought into the eating-room in early times. (Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 544.) Nothing is known respecting its peculiar properties; but we may infer that it was of considerable size, since Varro speaks of it as a substitute for the skin (uter); and Nonius associates it with the cask (cupa). The modern Italians retain the word in nearly its old form, il tino, and use it designate the vat in which grapes are trod out at the vintage.