"canistrum" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [kaˈnɪs.trũː] [Classical-Latin], [kaˈnis.trum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάναστρον (kánastron, “basket of reeds”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|κάναστρον||basket of reeds}} Ancient Greek κάναστρον (kánastron, “basket of reeds”) Head templates: {{la-noun|canistrum<2>}} canistrum n (genitive canistrī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|canistrum<2>}} Forms: canistrī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], canistrum [nominative, singular], canistra [nominative, plural], canistrī [genitive, singular], canistrōrum [genitive, plural], canistrō [dative, singular], canistrīs [dative, plural], canistrum [accusative, singular], canistra [accusative, plural], canistrō [ablative, singular], canistrīs [ablative, plural], canistrum [singular, vocative], canistra [plural, vocative], cānastrum [alternative], canistrī [alternative, in-plural]
  1. wicker basket (used in sacrifices) Tags: declension-2, neuter Derived forms: canistellum

Inflected forms

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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.