calathus

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Etymology

From Latin calathus, from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).

Noun

calathus (plural calathi)

  1. (historical) A vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).

Noun

calathus m (genitive calathī); second declension

  1. wicker basket
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.741–742:
      nēbat, ante torum calathī lānaque mollis erat.
      She was spinning, and before her bed were wicker baskets and soft wool.
  2. milk pail (or any of several other containers of a similar shape/size)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative calathus calathī
genitive calathī calathōrum
dative calathō calathīs
accusative calathum calathōs
ablative calathō calathīs
vocative calathe calathī

Descendants

  • Catalan: calaix (“drawer”)

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’s 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
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