canistrum

Latin

Alternative forms

• cānastrum
• canistrī m (in the plural)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάναστρον (kánastron, “basket of reeds”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈnis.trum/, [käˈnɪs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈnis.trum/, [käˈnist̪rum]

Noun

canistrum n (genitive canistrī); second declension

1. wicker basket (used in sacrifices)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	canistrum	canistra
genitive	canistrī	canistrōrum
dative	canistrō	canistrīs
accusative	canistrum	canistra
ablative	canistrō	canistrīs
vocative	canistrum	canistra

Derived terms

• canistellum

Descendants

• Dalmatian: caniastro, quanest
• Italian: canestro
• Spanish: canasto, canastro
  • → Dutch: kanaster, knaster
    • → English: canaster
    • → German: Knaster
      • → English: knaster
    • →? Traveller Norwegian: knaster
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cannastra
  • Portuguese: canastra
  • Spanish: canasta (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: canustyr
  • English: canister
    • → German: Kanister
      • → Ladin: canister
      • → Polish: kanister
      • → Romanian: canistră
    • → Irish: ceanastar

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