lagoena

English

Etymology

Latin lagoena

Noun

lagoena (plural lagoenae)

1. A narrow-necked vessel for holding and serving drinks at a table, especially wine: a decanter, flagon, type of carafe (made by the Romans of various materials, including glass).

Latin

A Greek lagynos (Latin lagoena) from Epidaurus, dated to the 2nd to 1st century BC

Alternative forms

• lagōna (Classical Latin, Cicero)
• lagēna (Classical Latin)
• lagūna (Classical Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈɡoe̯.na/, [ɫ̪äˈɡoe̯nä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈd͡ʒe.na/, [läˈd͡ʒɛːnä]

Noun

lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension

1. lagoena (type of narrow-necked vessel)

Usage notes

• The word was highly variable in the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries. Many dictionaries published since the 20th century pick lagoena as the headword, but in the second edition of the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the headword is lagōna.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lagoena	lagoenae
Genitive	lagoenae	lagoenārum
Dative	lagoenae	lagoenīs
Accusative	lagoenam	lagoenās
Ablative	lagoenā	lagoenīs
Vocative	lagoena	lagoenae

Related terms

• laguncula

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] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 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.