canaster
English
Etymology
From Dutch kanaster, from Spanish canastro (“basket”).[1] Doublet of canister and knaster.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun
canaster (uncountable)
- (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!
References
- ^ “canaster, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From cān(us) (“gray”) + -aster.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaːˈnas.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈnas.t̪er]
Adjective
cānaster (feminine cānastra, neuter cānastrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- grizzled
- half-gray
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | cānaster | cānastra | cānastrum | cānastrī | cānastrae | cānastra | |
genitive | cānastrī | cānastrae | cānastrī | cānastrōrum | cānastrārum | cānastrōrum | |
dative | cānastrō | cānastrae | 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.