dolium

From Latin dōlium.

dolium (plural dolia)

1. (historical, archaeology) A large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods in the ancient Western Mediterranean.

• dolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• idolum, moduli, moulid

• According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”)[1]; the same root as dolō (“I hew”) and doleō (“I suffer”).
• According to John Pairman Brown, a Punic commercial loanword, comparing Hebrew דֳּלִי‎ (dŏlī) which already appears in Isaiah 40:15[2] and is from Proto-Semitic, also Arabic دَلْو‎ (dalw, “bucket”) etc.

dōlium n (genitive dōliī or dōlī); second declension

1. a large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• dōliolum

• Catalan: doll
• English: dolium
• Italian: doglio
• Portuguese: talha

• dolium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dolium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dolium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dolium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin