Latin

Alternative forms

• canistri m (in the plural)

Noun

canistrum n ‎(genitive canistrī); second declension

1. wicker basket (used in sacrifices)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Dalmatian: caniastro
• English: canister
• Italian: canestro

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “canistrum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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