calathus
See also: Calathus
English
Etymology
From Latin calathus, from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).
Noun
calathus (plural calathi)
- (historical) A vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece.
Anagrams
- ach-lauts
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos).
Noun
calathus m (genitive calathī); second declension
- wicker basket
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.741-742:
- nēbat, ante torum calathī lānaque mollis erat.
- She was spinning, and [placed] before her bed were wicker baskets and soft wool.
- nēbat, ante torum calathī lānaque mollis erat.
- milk pail (or any of several other containers of a similar shape/size)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calathus | calathī |
Genitive | calathī | calathōrum |
Dative | calathō | calathīs |
Accusative | calathum | calathōs |
Ablative | calathō | calathīs |
Vocative | calathe | calathī |
Related terms
- calathiscus
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