lagoena

English

Etymology

From Latin lagoena.

Noun

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).

Latin

A Greek lagynos (Latin lagoena) from Epidaurus, dated to the 2nd to 1st century BC

Alternative forms

• lagaena, lagēna, lagōna, lagūna, laguēna, laguīna

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension

1. lagoena (type of narrow-necked vessel)

Usage notes

• The word was highly variable during the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lagoena	lagoenae
genitive	lagoenae	lagoenārum
dative	lagoenae	lagoenīs
accusative	lagoenam	lagoenās
ablative	lagoenā	lagoenīs
vocative	lagoena	lagoenae

Related terms

• laguncula

References

• “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] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Further reading

• “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.