phiala

English

Noun

phiala

  1. A bowl-shaped drinking-vessel used in Ancient Rome.
    • 1888, George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, page 315:
      The youth on the next couch holds a phiala over his head, tilting it to show that he has quaffed its contents.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φιάλη (phiálē).

Noun

phiala f (genitive phialae); first declension

  1. saucer (or similar broad, flat bowl)
  2. (Late Latin) a censer, thurible

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phiala phialae
Genitive phialae phialārum
Dative phialae phialīs
Accusative phialam phialās
Ablative phialā phialīs
Vocative phiala phialae

References

  • phiala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • phiala”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • phiala 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)
  • phiala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • phiala”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • phiala”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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