urceus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin urceus. === Noun === urceus (plural urcei) A ewer for holding water for washing. == Latin == === Alternative forms === urceum urcheus (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From orca (“tun, cask”), perhaps as a resubstantivised adjective. === Noun === urceus m (genitive urceī); second declension jug, pitcher, ewer mug ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: orsa Italian: orcio Spanish: orza → English: urceus → Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌿𐍃 (aurkjus) → Serbo-Croatian: vrč, врч → Slovene: vrč === References === “urceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “urceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “urceus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “urceus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “urceus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin