cantharus
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) 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.
| Case | 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.