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.
a sextarius
a vessel for measuring liquids, holding about a pint (.5 litre)
a wooden pitcher or ewer from which water or wine is poured, whether holding a sextarius or not
