calathus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin calathus, from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos). === Noun === calathus (plural calathi) (historical) A vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece. === Anagrams === ach-lauts == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos). === Noun === calathus m (genitive calathī); second declension wicker basket milk pail (or any of several other containers of a similar shape/size) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== calathiscus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: calaix (“drawer”) → Sardinian: calasciu → Spanish: calaje → Translingual: Calathus === References === “calathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “calathus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "calathus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “calathus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “calathus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “calathus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin