ewer

ewer

See also: Ewer

English

WOTD – 3 November 2010

French ewer, circa 1795, made of hard-paste porcelain

Rococo French ewer, circa 1771, made of silver

Etymology

From Middle English ewer, from Anglo-Norman or Old French ewer, eawer (modern French évier), from Latin aquārium, from aqua (“water”). Doublet of aquarium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ə/, /ˈjʊə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ɚ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

ewer (plural ewers)

1. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

Hypernyms

• pitcher

Derived terms

• ewery

Translations

widemouthed pitcher

Albanian: shtambë (sq), kënatë (sq) Arabic: إِبْرِيق‎ m (ʾibrīq) Egyptian Arabic: ابريق‎ m (abrīʾ) Armenian: սափոր (hy) (sapʿor), կուժ (hy) (kuž) Bulgarian: кана (bg) f (kana) Catalan: pitxer (ca) m Crimean Tatar: quman Danish: kande (da) c Finnish: kannu (fi) French: pichet (fr) m, aiguière (fr), broc (fr), cruche (fr) f Georgian: დოქი (doki), კოკა (ḳoḳa) German: Krug (de) m Greek: λαγήνι (el) n (lagíni) Hungarian: vizeskancsó (hu) Italian: brocca (it) f, caraffa f, lancella f Japanese: ピッチャー (ja) (pitchā), 水差し (みずさし, mizusashi) Latin: aquāle n Middle English: ewer Persian: سبو‎ (fa) (sabu), کلیزه‎ (fa) (kelize) Portuguese: jarro (pt) m, jarra (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: кувши́н (ru) m (kuvšín) (с ручкой (ručkoj) и широким (širokim) горлышком (gorlyškom)), жбан (ru) m (žban) Sanskrit: कुम्भ (sa) m (kumbha) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: врч m, ибрик m Roman: vrč (sh) m, ibrik (sh) m Spanish: aguamanil (es) m, pichel m, jofaina (es) f Turkish: ibrik (tr) Ukrainian: глек m (hlek), глечик m (hlečyk) (small), дзбан (uk) m (dzban)

Anagrams

• ewre, rewe, we're, weer, were, were-

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Chuukese

Interjection

ewer

1. yes

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French ewer, from Latin aquārium.

Alternative forms

• euer, ewear, ewere, hewer, owere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛu̯ˈeːr/, /ˈɛu̯ər/[1]

Noun

ewer (uncountable)

1. ewer[2]

Descendants

• English: ewer

References

1. Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, volume II: Phonology, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, OCLC 1300760, § 243, page 799.
2. “eure, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

ewer

1. Alternative form of eure

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Old French

Etymology

ewe +‎ -er, from Latin aquārium, or from an unattested Vulgar Latin *aquāria, from Latin aquārius, from aqua.

Noun

ewer m (oblique plural ewers, nominative singular ewers, nominative plural ewer)

1. ewer

Related terms

• ewe
• sewiere

Descendants

• French: évier
• → Middle English: ewer, euer, ewear, ewere, hewer, owere
  • English: ewer

References

• ewer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub