1) a sextarius
1a) a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (.5 litre)
2) a wooden pitcher or ewer from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not
Part of Speech: noun masculine
G3582
As if from ξέω xeô (which properly means 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, that is, about a pint), that is, (specifically) a measure for liquids or solids, (by analogy a pitcher): - pot.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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