Lewis & Short

Tărătalla, a humorous name of a cook, taken from Homer (Il. 1, 465): Μίστυλλον τ’ ἄρα τ’ ἄλλα: si tibi Mistyllus cocus, Aemiliane, vocatur, Dicetur quare non Taratalla mihi? Mart. 1, 51, 2.