dolium

English

Etymology

From Latin dōlium.

Noun

dolium (plural dolia)

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

See also

• dolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• idolum, moduli, moulid

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Latin

Etymology

• According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”); 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 and is from Proto-Semitic, also Arabic دَلْو (dalw, “bucket”) etc.

Noun

dōlium n (genitive dōliī or dōlī); second declension

1. a large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dōlium	dōlia
Genitive	dōliī dōlī1	dōliōrum
Dative	dōliō	dōliīs
Accusative	dōlium	dōlia
Ablative	dōliō	dōliīs
Vocative	dōlium	dōlia

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

Derived terms

• dōliolum

Descendants

• Catalan: doll
• English: dolium
• Italian: doglio

References

• “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