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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάναστρον (kánastron, “basket of reeds”).
Pronunciation
Noun
canistrum n (genitive canistrī); second declension
- wicker basket (used in sacrifices)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “canistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “canistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- canistrum 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)
- canistrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “canistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “canistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin