dolium
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dolium (plural dolia)
- (history, archaeology) A large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods in the ancient Western Mediterranean.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
- According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”);[1] the same root as dolō (“I hew”) and doleō (“I suffer”).
- According to John Pairman Brown, a Punic commercial loanword, comparing Hebrew דֳּלִי (dŏlī) which already appears in Isaiah 40:15[2] and is from Proto-Semitic, also Arabic دَلْو (dalw, “bucket”) etc.
Noun edit
dōlium n (genitive dōliī or dōlī); second declension
- a large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask
- cauldron, large brass pot, barrel, vat
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dōlium | dōlia |
| Genitive | dōliī dōlī1 |
dōliōrum |
| Dative | dōliō | dōliīs |
| Accusative | dōlium | dōlia |
| Ablative | dōliō | dōliīs |
| Vocative | dōlium | dōlia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “del-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 194-195
- ^ Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 145
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dolium.
Noun edit
dolium n (plural doliumuri)
Declension edit
Declension of dolium
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) dolium | doliumul | (niște) doliumuri | doliumurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) dolium | doliumului | (unor) doliumuri | doliumurilor |
| vocative | doliumule | doliumurilor | ||