dolium

English

Etymology

From Latin dolium

Noun

dolium (plural dolia)

  1. (historical, archaeology) A large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods in the ancient Western Mediterranean.

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Latin

Etymology

According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”)[1]; the same root as dolō (“I hew”) and doleō (“I suffer”).

Noun

dōlium n (genitive dōliī); second declension

  1. a large earthenware vessel; hogshead

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative dōlium dōlia
genitive dōliī dōliōrum
dative dōliō dōliīs
accusative dōlium dōlia
ablative dōliō dōliīs
vocative dōlium dōlia

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References

  • dolium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dolium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • dolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • dolium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “del-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 194-195
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