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holmos

holmos noun: an Ancient Greek or Etruscan vase with a rounded body, especially a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal, or a drinking cup with a foot and stem.

Noun

holmos (plural holmoi)

  1. An Ancient Greek or Etruscan vase with a rounded body, especially a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal, or a drinking cup with a foot and stem.
    • The large vase of a globular form standing in the middle is an holmos or therikleios, «vase for perfumes.»1873, Ercole G. Massi, Sculptures and Galleries in the Vatican Palace, page 235
    • The same characteristics of the clay of the small holmoi apply to almost all the fine impasto pottery at 'Satricum' except for the globular ollae, which have a reddish slip and a yellowish brown or greyish brown clay core like the holmos.1991, Edward Herring, The archaeology of power, page 27

Forms of holmos

pluralholmoi

Origin of holmos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὅλμος (hólmos).

Questions about holmos

What does holmos mean?
Holmos means an Ancient Greek or Etruscan vase with a rounded body, especially a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal, or a drinking cup with a foot and stem.
What part of speech is holmos?
Holmos is a noun.
What is the plural of holmos?
The plural of holmos is holmoi.

Words near holmos in the dictionary

  1. holmium
  2. holmiums
  3. holmoak
  4. holmoaks
  5. holmoi
  6. holmos
  7. Holmquist
  8. holmquistite
  9. holmquistites
  10. Holmquists
  11. holms

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