cantharus

From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos), from κανθαρίς (kantharís, “blister-beetle”), because of the resemblance of its form to the beetle. See cantharis.

cantharus (plural canthari)

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.

• (drinking cup): kantharos, kotyle, kotylos

• cantarus

From Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tʰa.rus/, [ˈkan.tʰa.rʊs]

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
   • 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.

Second declension.

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

  Cyrillic: ка̏нта̄р

  Latin: kȁntār

• → Spanish: cántaro
• Translingual: Cantharus

• 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, 1883–1887)
• cantharus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette