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Yes. The word dolium is a Scrabble US word. The word dolium is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is dolium a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dolium is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

D2O1L1I1U1M3

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6-letter words (3 found)

DOLIUM,IDOLUM,MODULI,

5-letter words (3 found)

DUOMI,MOULD,ODIUM,

4-letter words (17 found)

DIOL,DOUM,IDOL,LIDO,LIMO,LOID,LOUD,LUDO,MILD,MILO,MODI,MOIL,MOLD,MUID,MUIL,OLID,OULD,

3-letter words (23 found)

DIM,DOL,DOM,DUI,DUM,DUO,LID,LOD,LOU,LUD,LUM,MID,MIL,MOD,MOI,MOL,MOU,MUD,OIL,OLD,OLM,OUD,UDO,

2-letter words (14 found)

DI,DO,ID,IO,LI,LO,MI,MO,MU,OD,OI,OM,OU,UM,

You can make 60 words from dolium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dolium

dolium

Etymology

From Latin dōlium.

Noun

dolium (plural dolia)

  1. (history, archaeology) A large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods in the ancient Western Mediterranean.

See also

  • dolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • idolum, moduli, moulid

Latin

Etymology

  • According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”); the same root as dolō (“I hew”) and doleō (“I suffer”).
  • According to John Pairman Brown, a Punic commercial loanword, comparing Hebrew דֳּלִי (dŏlī) which already appears in Isaiah 40:15 and is from Proto-Semitic, also Arabic دَلْو (dalw, “bucket”) etc.

Noun

dōlium n (genitive dōliī or dōlī); second declension

  1. a large earthenware vessel, hogshead, cask
  2. cauldron, large brass pot, barrel, vat

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Derived terms

  • dōliolum

Descendants

  • Catalan: doll
  • English: dolium
  • Italian: doglio

References

  • “dolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolium 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)
  • dolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “dolium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dolium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dolium.

Noun

dolium n (plural doliumuri)

  1. dolium

Declension

References

  • dolium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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