Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Greek vase with two ears or handles, similar to the amphora.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
vase or drinkingcup with twohandles .
Etymologies
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From Latin, from Ancient Greek, “two-handled”. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
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Examples
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In short, finding we were both read in the classics, he did not know how to testify his regard enough; but ordered his daughter, a jolly rosy-cheeked damsel who was his sole domestic, to bring us a bottle of his quadrimum, repeating from Horace at the same time, “Deprome quadrimum sabina, O Tholiarche, merum diota.”
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We find that they were also used in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, for we see their forms represented on the vases themselves: Bacchus frequently holds a cantharus, Satyrs carry a diota.
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o Thaliarche, merum diota. permitte diuis cetera, qui simul strauere uentos aequore feruido10
Winter Horace 1912
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