canaster
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish canastro, from canasto (“basket”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun edit
canaster (uncountable)
- (tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
- 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 edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From cān(us) (“gray”) + -aster.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaːˈnas.ter/, [käːˈnäs̠t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈnas.ter/, [käˈnäst̪er]
Adjective edit
cānaster (feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 edit
- “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.