oinochoe

English

Noun

oinochoe (plural oinochoes or oinochoai or oinochoae)

1. Alternative form of oenochoe
   • 1961, Hesperia, page 129:

     Corinthian Late Geometric Light and Dark oinochoai have a wider neck […]

   • 1978, Crawford H[allock] Greenewalt, Jr., Ritual Dinners in Early Historic Sardis (University of California Publications: Classical Studies; volume 17), University of California Press, →ISBN, page 15:

     The absence of brush marks and the disposition of glaze suggests that these oinochoae were glazed by dipping: the vessels would have been gripped between two fingers, held upside down, and immersed in glaze solution.

   • 2008, Dirk Brandherm, Martin Trachsel, editors, A New Dawn for the Dark Age?: Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 34:

     Moreover, there are some Rhodian oinochoae with a long neck and a trefoil mouth similar to that of the Pitane oinochoe, but with a different body.

   • 2017, Alexander Vacek, “Al Mina and changing patterns of trade: the evidence from the eastern Mediterranean”, in Xenia Charalambidou, Catherine Morgan, editors, Interpreting the Seventh Century BC: Tradition and Innovation, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 55:

     Chios produced bird oinochoae covered with the same whitish or pale brown slip (Boardman 1967: 142 pl. 48.548) typical of south-Ionian bird oinochoae but not otherwise found on north-Ionian products.

   • 2020, Lieve Donnellan, editor, Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Oinochoai were used in funerary rites by the larger part of the population; […]

   • 2021, R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Lydian Painted Pottery Abroad: The Gordion Excavations 1950–1973, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 41:

     The 7th century trefoil oinochoai have a wider range of painted decoration including bichrome and banded (A. Ramage et al. 2021: HoB 408, HoB 481–483).

Italian

Etymology

Trasliteration of Ancient Greek οἰνοχόη (oinokhóē), derived from οἶνος (oînos, “wine”) +‎ χέω (khéō, “I pour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oj.noˈkɔ.e/
• Rhymes: -ɔe
• Hyphenation: oi‧no‧chò‧e

Noun

oinochoe f (invariable)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) oenochoe (wine jug)

   Hypernym: vaso

Further reading

• Oinochoe on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• oinochoe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana