cantharus

English

Alternative forms

• kantharos

Etymology

From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).

Noun

cantharus (plural canthari or cantharuses)

1. A large drinking cup with two handles.
2. A fountain or basin in the courtyard of an ancient church for worshippers to wash before entering.

Synonyms

• (drinking cup): kotyle, cotyle, kotylos

Latin

cantharus

Alternative forms

• cantarus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tʰa.rus/, [ˈkän̪t̪ʰärʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ta.rus/, [ˈkän̪t̪ärus]

Noun

cantharus m (genitive cantharī); second declension

1. a large drinking vessel with handles hanging down, tankard
2. a kind of sea-fish, possibly the black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)
3. a lug of a water-pipe in the form of a tankard
   • a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 11 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum

     Sed automataria aut siquis canthari, per quos aquae saliunt, poterunt legari, maxime si impositicii sunt.

     But if water machines or water-noses through which water springs can be legated then the like if they are attached.

Declension

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

• (drinking cup): cotyla

Descendants

• Italian: cantero
• → Catalan: càntar
• → English: cantharus
• → French: canthare
• → Galician: cântaro
• → Italian: cantaro
• → Portuguese: cântaro
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̏нта̄р

  Latin script: kȁntār

• → 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.