mantēle | mantīle, ii | mantēlĭum | mantīlĭum (noun N.n) : (), , n., and (), , n. manus and tela, properly a cloth for the hand
* A towel, napkin.
* Lit.: mantelium, ubi manus terguntur,Varr. L. L. 6, § 85 Müll.: tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis,Verg. A. 1, 702 (v. l. mantilia); id. G. 4, 377; Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.
* Transf., a table-cloth (postclass.): mantelia nunc pro operiendis mensis sunt: quae, ut nomen ipsum indicat, olim tergendis manibus praebebantur,Isid. Orig. 19, 266; in form mantile, Treb. Galb. 16, 3.