English → Latin
“ewer” in Latin
urceusjug, pitcher, ewer; mugurnaurn, a moderately sized vessel for drawing water; ballot box, particularly the urns used in gathering Roman ballots undehydriajug, ewer, urnsitulaa voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot boxsitellaan urn for holding ballotsseuor; either... or... (seu... seu...)
The English word ewer itself goes back to Latin aqua, through aquārium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
ewer
urceus (general term for any earthen vessel): urceus aquarius: urna (vessel for water or any other, either fluid or solid substance): cf., hydria, situlus or situla are PROP. for water-pail, but more commonly (especially the diminutive, sitella) the vessel from which lots were drawn (Dict. Antiquities): they were not, however, confined to this; we find hydriae farris, Sulp., Sev.; and on Inscript. for the urns in which the ashes of the dead were placed. Silver ewers, hydriae argenteae (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for ewer?
- The usual Latin words for “ewer” are urceus, urna, hydria; also situla, sitella, seu. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.