hirnea

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. 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”). It may also be connected with Pre-Samnite ιρνενι(α) (irneni(a)), although the linguist Matteo Calabrese doubts this connection. === Noun === hirnea f (genitive hirneae); first declension a jug for holding liquids Hypernym: vās Near-synonyms: ampulla, uter ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== hirnula === References === “hirnea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "hirnea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.