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oinochoe

oinochoe is the alternative form 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 oinochoe

pluraloinochoes
pluraloinochoai
pluraloinochoae

Questions about oinochoe

What is oinochoe the alternative form of?
Oinochoe is the alternative form of oenochoe.

Words near oinochoe in the dictionary

  1. oinkers
  2. oinking
  3. oinks
  4. oinochoae
  5. oinochoai
  6. oinochoe
  7. oinochoes
  8. oinokhoai
  9. oinokhoe
  10. oinokhoes
  11. oinology

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