rhytium

See also: Rhytium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥύτιον (rhútion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈry.ti.um/, [ˈrʏt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrit.t͡si.um/, [ˈrit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

rhytium n (genitive rhytiī or rhytī); second declension

1. A kind of drinking vessel shaped like a horn

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhytium	rhytia
Genitive	rhytiī rhytī1	rhytiōrum
Dative	rhytiō	rhytiīs
Accusative	rhytium	rhytia
Ablative	rhytiō	rhytiīs
Vocative	rhytium	rhytia

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

References

• rhytium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “rhytium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press