hirnea
Latin
Etymology
Related to erneum (“a kind of pie”), but further connections are uncertain. Maybe related to Hindi घड़ा (ghaṛā, “jug”) or from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”)[1].
Noun
hirnea f (genitive hirneae); first declension
- A jug for holding liquids
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hirnea | hirneae |
| Genitive | hirneae | hirneārum |
| Dative | hirneae | hirneīs |
| Accusative | hirneam | hirneās |
| Ablative | hirneā | hirneīs |
| Vocative | hirnea | hirneae |
Derived terms
- hirnula
References
- “hirnea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hirnea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hirnea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “hirnea”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 651