different between drinking vs cantharus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k??/

Verb

drinking

1. present participle of drink

Noun

drinking (plural drinkings)

1. An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

Synonyms

• potation

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kántharos).

Noun

cantharus (plural canthari)

1. A large drinking cup with two handles.
2. A fountain or basin in the courtyard of an ancient church for worshippers to wash before entering.

Synonyms

• (drinking cup): kantharos, kotyle, kotylos

Latin

Alternative forms

• cantarus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kántharos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.t?a.rus/, [?kän?t??ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.ta.rus/, [?k?n?t???us]

Noun

cantharus m (genitive canthar?); second declension

1. a large drinking vessel with handles hanging down, tankard
2. a kind of sea-fish, possibly the black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)
3. a lug of a water-pipe in the form of a tankard
   • a. 224, Dig. 30, 1, 41, § 11 Ulpianus libro vicesimo primo ad Sabinum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: cantero
• ? Catalan: càntar
• ? English: cantharus
• ? French: canthare
• ? Galician: cântaro
• ? Italian: cantaro
• ? Portuguese: cântaro
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ????????

  Latin: k?nt?r

• ? Spanish: cántaro
• Translingual: Cantharus

References

• cantharus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cantharus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cantharus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette