phiala

English

Noun

phiala

1. A bowl-shaped drinking-vessel used in Ancient Rome.
   • 1888, George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, page 315:

     The youth on the next couch holds a phiala over his head, tilting it to show that he has quaffed its contents.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φιάλη (phiálē).

Noun

phiala f (genitive phialae); first declension

1. saucer (or similar broad, flat bowl)
2. (Late Latin) a censer, thurible

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	phiala	phialae
genitive	phialae	phialārum
dative	phialae	phialīs
accusative	phialam	phialās
ablative	phialā	phialīs
vocative	phiala	phialae

Descendants

• Late Latin: fiola
  • Old French: fiole
    • → Middle Dutch: fiole
      • Dutch: fiool
    • → Middle English: fiole, fyol, fyole, viol, viole, vyole, vyel, phial, vyall, vyolle, fyall, phiole, fyoll
      • English: vial, phial
      • → Welsh: ffiol
    • French: fiole

References

• “phiala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phiala”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phiala 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)
• phiala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “phiala”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “phiala”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Further reading

• “phiala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press