Meanings
plural choenixes · plural choenices · alternative chenix · alternative choinix · alternative khoinix · alternative obsolete chœnix
- historicalAn ancient dry measure of two pints or greater.
If the kings do not come to the public supper, each of them must have two choenixes of meal and a cotyle of wine sent home to him at his house; if they come, they are given a double quantity of each, and the same when any private man invites them to his table.
1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus
Origin
- Ancient Greekχοῖνῐξ
- Latinchoenix
- Englishchoenix
From Latin choenix, from Ancient Greek χοῖνῐξ (khoînĭx).
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