canaster

English

Etymology

From Dutch kanaster, from Spanish canastro (“basket”). Doublet of canister and knaster.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

canaster (uncountable)

1. (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.

   Synonym: knaster

   • 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert‎^[1], →ISBN:

     The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!

Anagrams

• Ancaster, Canteras, cane rats, caterans

Latin

Etymology

From cān(us) (“gray”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaːˈnas.ter/, [käːˈnäs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈnas.ter/, [käˈnäst̪er]

Adjective

cānaster (feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. grizzled
2. half-gray

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cānaster	cānastra	cānastrum		cānastrī	cānastrae	cānastra
Genitive	cānastrī	cānastrae	cānastrī		cānastrōrum	cānastrārum	cānastrōrum
Dative	cānastrō		cānastrō		cānastrīs
Accusative	cānastrum	cānastram	cānastrum		cānastrōs	cānastrās	cānastra
Ablative	cānastrō	cānastrā	cānastrō		cānastrīs
Vocative	cānaster	cānastra	cānastrum		cānastrī	cānastrae	cānastra

References

• “canaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.