The corpus record — Latin

hydria

hydria · f

a jug

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
In C. Verrem 5 · 0.5/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

hydrĭa — Lewis & Short

hydrĭa, ae, f., = u(dri/a (a water-pot; hence, in gen.),

I a jug, ewer, urn: argenteae, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 19, § 47: in hydriam sortes conicere, id. ib. 2, 2, 51, § 127: farris, Sulp. Sever. Hist. Sacr. 1, 43. Of the cinerary urns in tombs, Inscr. Orell. 4546 sq.—

II Hydria, a comedy of Menander, Quint. 11, 3, 91.

In the wild

hydriasque Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.97
hydria Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.35
hydria Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.pr.4.p1
hydrias Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.47
Hydriae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.91
hydriam Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.32

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.