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oenochoae

oenochoae is the plural 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...

Origin of oenochoae

From Ancient Greek οἰνοχόαι (oinokhóai).

Questions about oenochoae

What is oenochoae the plural of?
Oenochoae is the plural of oenochoe.

Words near oenochoae in the dictionary

  1. oenite
  2. Oeno
  3. oeno-
  4. oenochemical
  5. oenochemistry
  6. oenochoae
  7. oenochoe
  8. oenochoes
  9. oenochoë
  10. oenochoës
  11. oenoculture

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