canephoros

== English == === Noun === canephoros (plural canephoroi) Alternative form of canephora. == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κανηφόρος (kanēphóros), from κάνεον (káneon, “wicker basket”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “-bearer”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈneː.pʰɔ.rɔs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈnɛː.fo.ros] === Noun === canēphoros f "paintings or statues [by] Greek artists, representing Athenian maidens, who, in the festivals of Juno, Diana, Minerva, Ceres, and Bacchus, bore different sacred utensils in wicker baskets on their heads" (Lewis and Short) ==== Declension ==== The word is declined as if Greek: Nominative singular: canēphoros Accusative singular: canēphoron Nominative plural: canēphoroe Accusative plural: canēphorōs === References === “canephoros”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “canephoros”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers