acratophorum

From Ancient Greek ἀκρατοφόρον (akratophóron), an alternative form or inflection of Ancient Greek ἀκρατοφόρος (akratophóros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kraːˈtɔ.pʰɔ.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.kraˈt̪ɔː.fo.rum]

acrātophorum n (genitive acrātophorī); second declension

1. pitcher or flask used to store unmixed wine
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 1.8.5:

     Ea minus sumptuosa vinea, quae sine iugo ministrat acratophoro vinum

     The least expensive vineyards are those which without the aid of any sort of prop administer wine for the wine-jar

   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.15:

     et tamen puto concedi nobis oportere ut Graeco verbo utamur, si quando minus occurret Latinum, ne hoc ephippiis et acratophoris potius quam proegmenis et apoproegmenis concedatur

     Nevertheless, I think it proper for us to concede to use a Greek word if no Latin comes to mind, lest this be conceded for ephippium and acratophorum but not for proegmena and apoproegmena

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “acratophorum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acratophorum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.