ewer

English

WOTD - 3 November 2010    

Wikipedia

A ewer.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ewer, eawer (= Old French aiguiere), from Vulgar Latin *aquāria, from Latin aqua (“water”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈjuː.ə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈju.ɚ/

Noun

ewer (plural ewers)

1. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

Hypernyms

• pitcher

Translations

widemouthed pitcher

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: սափոր (hy) (sap’or), կուժ (hy) (kuž) Bosnian: ibrik (bs) m. Bulgarian: кана (bg) f. Catalan: pitxer (ca) m. Croatian: ibrik (hr) m. Finnish: kannu (fi) French: pichet (fr) m., aiguière  (fr), broc (fr) Georgian: დოქი (ka) (dok'i), კოკა (ka) (koka) German: Krug m Greek: λαγήνι (el) n.

Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: brocca (it) f., caraffa (it) f. Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: кувшин (ru) m. (с ручкой (ru) и широким (ru) горлышком (ru)) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: врч m., ибрик m. Roman: vrč m., ibrik m. Spanish: aguamanil (es) m., pichel (es) m., jofaina (es) f. Turkish: ibrik (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• rewe, weer, were, we're

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Anglo-Norman

Etymology

ewe +‎ -er, or from an unattested Vulgar Latin *aquāria.

Noun

ewer m. (oblique plural ewers, nominative singular ewers, nominative plural ewer)

1. ewer

Descendants

• English: ewer

References

• ewer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub