Latin search results for: canthari

#1

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. Black Sea bream
  2. bowl/basin of fountain
  3. large drinking vessel with handles
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. vessel of holy water
  2. water pipe
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a worm
  2. blister-beetle (Cantharis vesicatoria)
  3. Spanish fly (medicine/poison)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (having in it a figure of a Spanish fly L+S)
  2. precious stone
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of vine (L+S)
  2. wine from vine cantharites
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)