lagoena

From Latin lagoena.

lagoena (plural lagoenae)

1. A Roman flagon: a narrow-necked vessel with a handle and a flat base, often used for wine; a decanter, jug (made by the Romans of various materials, including glass). In Ancient Rome, wine was shipped in large vessels like the amphorae, while lesser vessels such as these lagoenae were kept at home and filled from them.

• lagaena, lagēna, lagōna, lagūna, laguēna, laguīna

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaˈɡoe̯.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [laˈd͡ʒɛː.na]

lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension

1. lagoena (type of narrow-necked vessel)

• The word was highly variable during the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries.

First-declension noun.

• laguncula

• “lagōna” on page 1098 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “lagoena” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• lagoena, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lagoena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.