oenophorum

Forms

oenophorum n (genitive oenophorī); second declension^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek οἰνοφόρον (oinophóron),^[2][1][3] the neuter of οἰνοφόρος (oinophóros, “containing wine”) used as a noun,^[1] from οἶνος (oînos, “wine”) and -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”).^[1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lucilius has it first,^[4][3] in a fragment quoted by Nonius, for a vessel to carry wine.^[5]

Semantic evolution

Lewis and Short call it a wine-holder or wine-basket of unknown shape,^[5] the OLD a large wine vessel,^[2] and Conte a flask for wine.^[6] In one of his satires Horace pictures a praetor followed by only five slaves, who carry a chamber pot and a wine flask.^[6] Persius, Juvenal and Martial use it too.^[5][3]

The TLL records spellings such as ⟨oenoforum⟩ and ⟨enophorum⟩ in the manuscripts.^[7] A masculine singular is reported by the grammarian Probus, and a plural oenophoria appears in the jurist Paulus.^[3]

Timeline

• c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it in a satire.^[5][3][4]
• 65–8 BC – Horace names it among the baggage of a travelling praetor.^[6][4]
• 34–62 AD – Persius uses it in his fifth satire.^[5][3][4]
• 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it in two epigrams.^[5][4]
• c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it in his sixth and seventh satires.^[5][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A large vessel or basket for carrying wine.^[2][5][6]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b c d e f g Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b c d e f g h Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b c d Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
7. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften