urna ae, f 1 VAS-, a vessel of baked clay, vessel for drawing water, water-pot, water-jar, urn: fictilis, O.: stetit urna Sicca, H.: Caelata (of a river-god), V.

—A voting-urn, ballot-box: senatorum: leges minitatur et urnam, H.

—An urn for lots, vessel for drawing lots: educit ex urnā trīs (iudices): stat ductis sortibus urna, V.: omnium Versatur urna, H.: Omne capax movet urna nomen, Cs.: nomina in urnam coicere, L.

—A vessel for the ashes of the dead, cinerary urn: Quodque rogis superest unā requiescit in urnā, O.

—A money-pot, money-jar: argenti, H.

—As a liquid measure, an urna, half an amphora (about two and a half gallons): urnae crater capax, Iu.