lagoena

== English == === Etymology === From Latin lagoena. === Noun === lagoena (plural lagoenae) A Roman flagon: a narrow-necked vessel with a handle and a flat base, often used for wine; a decanter, jug (made by the Romans of various materials, including glass). In Ancient Rome, wine was shipped in large vessels like the amphorae, while lesser vessels such as these lagoenae were kept at home and filled from them. == Latin == === Alternative forms === lagaena, lagēna, lagōna, lagūna, laguēna, laguīna === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek λᾰ́γῡνος (lắgūnos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫaˈɡoe̯.na] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [laˈd͡ʒɛː.na] === Noun === lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension lagoena (type of narrow-necked vessel) ==== Usage notes ==== Highly variable during the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== === 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.