cantharis

== English == === Etymology === From Latin cantharis, from Ancient Greek κανθαρίς (kantharís). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kænˈθæɹɪs/ === Noun === cantharis (plural cantharides) singular of cantharides === Anagrams === Thracians, anarchist, antiarchs, anticrash == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κανθαρίς (kantharís, “blister-beetle”), of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the toponym Κάνθαροσ (Kántharos), a port of Piraeus, which is a Pre-Greek name. Also compare Akkadian 𒅗𒀭𒁕/𒌨𒌋 (“cup”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkan.tʰa.rɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkan.ta.ris] === Noun === cantharis f (genitive cantharidis); third declension Spanish fly, a beetle of species Lytta vesicatoria, and the poison of it. A worm injurious to the vine and rose. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: cantharis === References === “cantharis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cantharis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cantharis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN