calathus

See also: Calathus

English

Etymology

From Latin calathus, from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).

Noun

calathus (plural calathi)

1. (historical) A vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece.

Anagrams

• ach-lauts

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).

Noun

calathus m (genitive calathī); second declension

1. wicker basket
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.741–742:

     nēbat, ante torum calathī lānaque mollis erat.

     She was spinning, and [placed] before her bed were wicker baskets and soft wool.

2. milk pail (or any of several other containers of a similar shape/size)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	calathus	calathī
genitive	calathī	calathōrum
dative	calathō	calathīs
accusative	calathum	calathōs
ablative	calathō	calathīs
vocative	calathe	calathī

Related terms

• calathiscus

Descendants

• Catalan: calaix (“drawer”)
  • → Sardinian: calasciu
  • → Spanish: calaje

References

• “calathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calathus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• calathus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “calathus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calathus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin