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|strgr=as if from xeo ([[properly]], to [[smooth]]; by [[implication]], (of [[friction]]) to [[boil]] or [[heat]]); a [[vessel]] (as fashioned or for [[cooking]]) (or [[perhaps]] by [[corruption]] from the Latin sextarius, the [[sixth]] of a modius, i.e. [[about]] a [[pint]]), i.e. ([[specially]]), a [[measure]] for liquids or solids, (by [[analogy]], a [[pitcher]]): [[pot]].
|strgr=as if from xeo ([[properly]], to [[smooth]]; by [[implication]], (of [[friction]]) to [[boil]] or [[heat]]); a [[vessel]] (as fashioned or for [[cooking]]) (or [[perhaps]] by [[corruption]] from the Latin sextarius, the [[sixth]] of a modius, i.e. [[about]] a [[pint]]), i.e. ([[specially]]), a [[measure]] for liquids or solids, (by [[analogy]], a [[pitcher]]): [[pot]].
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|txtha=ξεστου, ὁ (a [[corruption]] of the Latin sextarius);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a sextarius, i. e. a [[vessel]] for measuring liquids, holding [[about]] a [[pint]] (Josephus, Antiquities 8,2, 9 — [[see]] [[βάτος]]; [[Epictetus]] diss. 1,9, 33; 2,16, 22; (Dioscor.), Galen and [[medical]] writers).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[wooden]] [[pitcher]] or [[ewer]] (Vulg. urceus (A. V. [[pot]])) from [[which]] [[water]] or [[wine]] is poured, [[whether]] holding a sextarius or [[not]]: T WH [[omit]]; Tr brackets the [[clause]]).
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