Greek word
xéstēs
ξέστης
What it means
by implication, to boil or heat)
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)
Where it comes from
as if from (properly, to smooth