œnochoe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Most of the finest vases with black figures, consisting of hydriæ, amphoræ, and œnochoæ, many of large size and of finest drawing and colour, have been found at Vulci."
- "‘Among them may be noticed the following:—Two very beautiful Greek painted vases, œnochoæ with red figures of a fine style;[…]’"
- "We here find lions standing on their hind legs holding œnochoæ, and clothed in fishes’ scales, like the god Anu in Assyro-Chaldæan symbolism."
- "Between these objects and the body was a bronze vessel of the shape called by the Greek œnochoe, which enables the date of the burial to be fixed about the Fourth century B.C.¹ (Fig. 285)."