lagoena
Latin

A Greek lagynos (Latin lagoena) from Epidaurus, dated to the 2nd to 1st century BC
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈɡoe̯.na/, [ɫ̪äˈɡoe̯nä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈd͡ʒe.na/, [läˈd͡ʒɛːnä]
Noun
lagoena f (genitive lagoenae); first declension
Usage notes
- The word was highly variable in the Classical period, with several forms persisting in common use for centuries. Many dictionaries published since the 20th century pick Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) as the headword, but in the second edition of the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the headword is lagōna.
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
References
- “lagōna” on page 1098 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “lagoena” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- lagoena - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
Further reading
- “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lagoena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lagoena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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