Dictionary - Definition of DOLIUM


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

"Dolium" is a common misspelling or typo for: folium.

Date "Dolium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Etymology:Dolium \Do"li*um\, noun. [Latin expression large jar.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: DOLIUM

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Dolium (pithos). A large jar of earthenware into which new wine was placed to ferment. Many of them were large enough to hold a man, and were shaped like a huge caldron with globular bodies and wide mouths. Diogenes (q.v.) the Cynic took up his abode in a dolium (not in a tub, as popularly said), and in some ancient works of art he is depicted as lolling in one of these vessels during his celebrated interview with Alexander the Great. See Diog. Laert. vi. 23; Plin. Ep. 90Plin. Ep., 14. Dolia curta were urinals placed in the narrow streets between the houses for the convenience of those who passed by (Lucret. iv. 1026; Macrob. iii. 16. 15; Suet. Vesp. 23). Dolia were also used as coffins. In the Crimea, near Sebastopol, sixteen pithoi were discovered, four feet four inches high, and two feet two inches in diameter. Makers of dolia were known as doliarii. (references)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Date "DOLIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Etymology:Dolium \Do"li*um\, noun. [Latin expression large jar.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Dolium (pithos). A large jar of earthenware into which new wine was placed to ferment. Many of them were large enough to hold a man, and were shaped like a huge caldron with globular bodies and wide mouths. Diogenes (q.v.) the Cynic took up his abode in a dolium (not in a tub, as popularly said), and in some ancient works of art he is depicted as lolling in one of these vessels during his celebrated interview with Alexander the Great. See Diog. Laert. vi. 23; Plin. Ep. 90Plin. Ep., 14. Dolia curta were urinals placed in the narrow streets between the houses for the convenience of those who passed by (Lucret. iv. 1026; Macrob. iii. 16. 15; Suet. Vesp. 23). Dolia were also used as coffins. In the Crimea, near Sebastopol, sixteen pithoi were discovered, four feet four inches high, and two feet two inches in diameter. Makers of dolia were known as doliarii. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top