cantharus

== English == === Alternative forms === kantharos === 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 ==== (drinking cup): kotyle, cotyle, kotylos ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === cantarus === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkan.tʰa.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkan.ta.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 a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 11 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== 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, 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.