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œnochoe

œnochoe is the obsolete typography of oenochoe.

Meaning of oenochoe

Noun

oenochoe (plural oenochoes or oenochoae)

  1. (historical) A type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.
    • These two head oenochoae were buried with the kotyle by the Brygos painter (22. 8), B.S.A. xiv, pl. xiv, and the Red Figure kylix (22. 7), ibid. pl. xiii. b.1934, Percy Neville Ure, Aryballoi & Figurines from Rhitsona in Boeotia: An Account of the Early Archaic Pottery and of the Figurines, Archaic and Classical, with Supplementary Lists of the Finds of...

Forms of œnochoe

pluralœnochoes
pluralœnochoæ

Questions about œnochoe

What is œnochoe the obsolete typography of?
Œnochoe is the obsolete typography of oenochoe.

Words near œnochoe in the dictionary

  1. Œnanthe
  2. œnanthic
  3. Œneus
  4. Œniadæ
  5. œno-
  6. œnochoe
  7. œnochoes
  8. œnochoæ
  9. œnocyan
  10. œnocyte
  11. œnocytes

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