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Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Ancient Greek κανθήλιος (kanthḗlios, “donkey used as pack animal”), from κανθήλια (kanthḗlia, “pack-saddle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
canthērius m (genitive canthēriī or canthērī); second declension
- a gelding
- an ass, mule
- (figuratively) a man impotent through age
- (architecture) a spar under the roof, a rafter
- (viticulture) a pole furnished with crosspieces for supporting a vine, a trellis
- (veterinary medicine) a kind of frame for suspending sick horses
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “cantherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cantherius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers