hydria

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδρία (hudría, “water jar or water container”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹeə/

hydria (plural hydrias or hydriae or hydriai)

1. A three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water.

• Riyadh

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhy.dri.a/, [ˈhʏd̪riä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dri.a/, [ˈiːd̪riä]

hydria f (genitive hydriae); first declension

1. jug, ewer, urn

First-declension noun.

• “hydria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hydria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hydria 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)
• hydria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hydria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “hydria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hydria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin