calathus Latin · revision 33016

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=grc κάλαθος}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''calathus''' ''m'' (genitive calathī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κάλαθος|tr=kálathos|t=wicker basket]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of baskets, of vessels for curdled milk and of wine cups.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a wicker basket or hand basket, for flowers, wool, thread or fruit;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short give ''quasillum'' as the native word.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By extension it is any vessel of similar shape: a vessel for making cheese or holding milk, and a wine cup.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of a cradle for washing gold, and Columella of the cup of a lily.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of baskets, milk vessels and cups.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of the cup of a lily.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a cradle for gold.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A wicker [[m|en|basket]], for flowers, wool or fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A vessel for making [[m|en|cheese]] or holding milk; a milk pail.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A cup or [[m|en|goblet]] for wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A cradle for washing gold.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The cup or [[m|en|calyx]] of a flower.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[calathiscus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The ''Appendix Probi'' corrects ''galatus'' to ''calatus'', and the manuscripts often spell it ''galat(h)us'' or ''calatus''.^(Appendix Probi)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}