cantherius

Latin

Alternative forms

• cantērius

Etymology

Perhaps from Ancient Greek κανθήλιος (kanthḗlios, “donkey used as pack animal”), from κανθήλια (kanthḗlia, “pack-saddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kanˈtʰeː.ri.us/, [kän̪ˈt̪ʰeːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kanˈte.ri.us/, [kän̪ˈt̪ɛːrius]

Noun

canthērius m (genitive canthēriī or canthērī); second declension

1. a gelding
2. an ass, mule
3. (figuratively) a man impotent through age
4. (architecture) a spar under the roof, a rafter
5. (viticulture) a pole furnished with crosspieces for supporting a vine, a trellis
6. (veterinary medicine) a kind of frame for suspending sick horses

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canthērius	canthēriī
Genitive	canthēriī canthērī1	canthēriōrum
Dative	canthēriō	canthēriīs
Accusative	canthērium	canthēriōs
Ablative	canthēriō	canthēriīs
Vocative	canthērie	canthēriī

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