rhytium

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥύτιον (rhútion).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈry.ti.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrit.t͡si.um/,

Noun

rhytium n (genitive rhytiī or rhytī); second declension

A kind of drinking vessel shaped like a horn

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rhytium	rhytia
genitive	rhytiī rhytī¹	rhytiōrum
dative	rhytiō	rhytiīs
accusative	rhytium	rhytia
ablative	rhytiō	rhytiīs
vocative	rhytium	rhytia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

rhytium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“rhytium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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