cantharus
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).
Noun
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
Latin
Alternative forms
- cantarus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkan.tʰa.rʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkan̪.t̪a.rus]
Noun
cantharus m (genitive cantharī); second declension
- a large drinking vessel with handles hanging down, tankard
- a kind of sea-fish, possibly a black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)
- a lug of a water-pipe in the form of a tankard
Declension
Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cantharus | cantharī |
genitive | cantharī | cantharōrum |
dative | cantharō | cantharīs |
accusative | cantharum | cantharōs |
ablative | cantharō | cantharīs |
vocative | canthare | cantharī |
Synonyms
- (drinking cup): cotyla
Descendants
- Italian: cantero
- → Catalan: càntar
- → English: cantharus
- → French: canthare
- → Galician: cântaro
- → Italian: cantaro
- → Portuguese: cântaro
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: cántaro
- Translingual: Cantharus
References
- “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.