lagoena

Latin lagoena

lagoena (plural lagoenae)

1. A narrow-necked vessel for holding and serving drinks at a table, especially wine: a decanter, flagon, type of carafe (made by the Romans of various materials, including glass).

• lagōna (Classical Latin, Cicero)
• lagēna (Classical Latin)
• lagūna (Classical Latin)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈɡoe̯.na/, [ɫ̪äˈɡoe̯nä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈd͡ʒe.na/, [läˈd͡ʒɛːnä]

lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension

1. lagoena (type of narrow-necked vessel)

• The word was highly variable in the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries. Many dictionaries published since the 20th century pick lagoena as the headword, but in the second edition of the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the headword is lagōna.

First-declension noun.

• laguncula

• “lagōna” on page 1098 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “lagoena” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “lagoena”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

• “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lagoena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.