hirnea

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Latin

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Etymology

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Related to erneum (a kind of pie), but further connections are uncertain. Maybe related to Hindi घड़ा (ghaṛā, jug) or from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (to enclose).[1]

Noun

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hirnea f (genitive hirneae); first declension

  1. A jug for holding liquids

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Derived terms

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References

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  • hirnea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hirnea 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)
  • hirnea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “hirnea”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 651