{"def":{"short":"by implication, (of friction) to boil or heat); a vessel (as fashioned or for cooking) (or perhaps by corruption from the Latin <i>sextarius</i>, the sixth of a modius, i.e., about a pint), i.e., (specially), a measure for liquids or solids, (by analogy, a pitcher)","long":["a sextarius",["a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (0.5 liter)"],"a wooden pitcher or ewer from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not"]},"deriv":"as if from ξέω (properly, to smooth","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈk͡sɛ.stes","ipa_mod":"ˈk͡se̞.ste̞s","sbl":"xestēs","dic":"KSEH-stase","dic_mod":"KSAY-stase"}}