cantharus
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).
Noun
[edit]cantharus (plural canthari or cantharuses)
- A large drinking cup with two handles.
- A fountain or basin in the courtyard of an ancient church for worshippers to wash before entering.
Synonyms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkan.tʰa.rus/, [ˈkän̪t̪ʰärʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ta.rus/, [ˈkän̪t̪ärus]
Noun
[edit]cantharus m (genitive cantharī); second declension
- a large drinking vessel with handles hanging down, tankard
- a kind of sea-fish, possibly the black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)
- a lug of a water-pipe in the form of a tankard
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cantharus | cantharī |
genitive | cantharī | cantharōrum |
dative | cantharō | cantharīs |
accusative | cantharum | cantharōs |
ablative | cantharō | cantharīs |
vocative | canthare | cantharī |
Synonyms
[edit]- (drinking cup): cotyla
Descendants
[edit]- Italian: cantero
- → Catalan: càntar
- → English: cantharus
- → French: canthare
- → Galician: cântaro
- → Italian: cantaro
- → Portuguese: cântaro
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: cántaro
- Translingual: Cantharus
References
[edit]- “cantharus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cantharus 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)
- cantharus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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