diota

See also: Diota

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek, “two-handled”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

diota (plural diotas or diotae)

  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
    • 1817, Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6, page 105,
      A Greek had recently discovered a vessel of terra cotta containing some small bronze coins of Naxos, of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded Bacchus in front, and a diota on the reverse, with the legend ΝΑΞΙΩΝ: we bought ten of these.
    • 1832, G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks: A Manual of Grecian Antiquities, page 262:
      The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.
    • 1865, Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant, volume 1, page 236:
      On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ, on which magistrates′ names are stamped.

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Welsh

Etymology

From diod (“drink”) +‎ -ha.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /di.ˈɔta/, /ˈdjɔta/

Verb

diota (first-person singular present diotaf)

  1. to booze, to indulge in strong drink

Conjugation
Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future diotaf dioti diota diotwn diotwch diotant diotir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional		 diotwn diotit diotai diotem diotech diotent diotid
preterite diotais diotaist diotodd diotasom diotasoch diotasant diotwyd
pluperfect diotaswn diotasit diotasai diotasem diotasech diotasent diotasid, diotesid
present subjunctive diotwyf diotych dioto diotom diotoch diotont dioter
imperative — diota dioted diotwn diotwch diotent dioter
verbal noun diota
verbal adjectives diotedig
diotadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms singular plural
first second third first second third
future diota i, diotaf i dioti di diotith o/e/hi, diotiff e/hi diotwn ni diotwch chi diotan nhw
conditional diotwn i, diotswn i diotet ti, diotset ti diotai fo/fe/hi, diotsai fo/fe/hi dioten ni, diotsen ni diotech chi, diotsech chi dioten nhw, diotsen nhw
preterite diotais i, diotes i diotaist ti, diotest ti diotodd o/e/hi dioton ni diotoch chi dioton nhw
imperative — diota — — diotwch —
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
diota ddiota niota unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “diota”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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