dolium

From Latin dōlium.

dolium (plural dolia)

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

• dolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• idolum, moduli, moulid

• 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.

dōlium n (genitive dōliī or dōlī); second declension

1. a large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask
2. cauldron, large brass pot, barrel, vat

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• dōliolum

• Catalan: doll
• Italian: doglio
• Piedmontese: doja, doj
• Spanish: dujo
• → English: dolium

• “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

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dolium.

dolium n (plural doliumuri)

1. dolium

• dolium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN