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7-letter words (1 found)

AMPHORA,

6-letter words (2 found)

PARAMO,PHARMA,

5-letter words (10 found)

AROHA,AROMA,HAOMA,HARAM,MARAH,MORPH,OMRAH,PARMA,PHARM,PRAAM,

4-letter words (24 found)

AMAH,ARPA,HAAR,HARM,HARO,HARP,HOAR,HOMA,HORA,MAAR,MAHA,MARA,MOHR,MORA,OPAH,PARA,PRAM,PRAO,PROA,PROM,RAMP,ROAM,ROMA,ROMP,

3-letter words (37 found)

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2-letter words (15 found)

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You can make 89 words from amphora according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of amphora

amphora

Etymology

From Latin amphora (“large wine vessel, Roman unit of liquid measure”), from Ancient Greek ἀμφορεύς (amphoreús, “two-handled pitcher, Greek units of liquid measure”), ultimately from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀠𐀡𐀩𐀸 (a-pi-po-re-we, “carried on both sides”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæmfəɹə/
  • IPA(key): /æmˈfɔ(ː)ɹə/ (prescriptively "incorrect" but common; /ˈa-/ in Latin)

Noun

amphora (plural amphoras or amphorae or amphorai)

  1. (chiefly historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.
  2. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 80 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 26 L although differing slightly over time.
  3. (historical) A Roman unit of ship capacity, similar to tonnage.
  4. (botany) A lower valve of a fruit that opens transversely.

Synonyms

  • (unit of liquid volume): Roman amphora, quadrantal, amphora quadrantal

Coordinate terms

  • (large vessel): bottle, jug, keg, barrel, cask, tun
  • (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/2304 amphora), cyathus (1/576 amphora), acetabulum (1/384 amphora), quartarius (1/192 amphora), hemina (1/96 amphora), sextarius (1/48 amphora), congius (⅛ amphora), urna (½ amphora), culeus (20 amphoras)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • amphoric, amphora quadrantal

Translations

Anagrams

  • amorpha

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμφορεύς (amphoreús, “two-handled pitcher, units of liquid measure”). As a Roman unit, originally an elision of amphora quadrantal.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈam.pʰo.ra/, [ˈämpʰɔrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈam.fo.ra/, [ˈämforä]

Noun

amphora f (genitive amphorae); first declension

  1. (chiefly historical) amphora, a large vessel, especially one made of clay with two handles used for storing and transporting wine and oil
  2. (historical) amphora, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 26 L

Declension

First-declension noun.

The genitive plural amphorārum has the alternative form amphōrum which is especially used in contexts of liquid measure.

Synonyms

  • (unit of liquid measure): quadrantal, amphora quadrantal

Coordinate terms

  • (unit of liquid volume): lingula (1/2304 amphora), cyathus (1/576 amphora), acetabulum (1/384 amphora), quartarius (1/192 amphora), hemina (1/96 amphora), sextarius (1/48 amphora), congius (⅛ amphora), urna (½ amphora), culeus (20 amphorae)

Derived terms

  • amphorālis
  • amphorārius
  • amphoricus
  • ampulla

Descendants

  • Catalan: àmfora
  • French: amphore
  • Galician: ánfora
  • Italian: anfora
  • Portuguese: ânfora
  • Spanish: ánfora
  • → English: amphor
  • → German: Amphore
  • →? Proto-West Germanic: *ambrī (see there for further descendants)

References

  • “amphora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “amphora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • amphora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • amphora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “amphora”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “amphora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “amphora”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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