cantharis

From Latin cantharis, from Ancient Greek κανθαρίς (kantharís).

• IPA^(key): /kænˈθæɹɪs/

cantharis (plural cantharides)

1. singular of cantharides

• Thracians, anarchist, antiarchs, anticrash

From Ancient Greek κανθαρίς (kantharís, “blister-beetle”), of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the toponym Κάνθαροσ (Kántharos), a port of Piraeus, which is a Pre-Greek name. Also compare Akkadian 𒅗𒀭𒁕/𒌨𒌋 (“cup”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tʰa.ris/, [ˈkan.tʰa.rɪs]

cantharis f (genitive cantharidis); third declension

1. The Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria, and the poison of it.
2. A worm injurious to the vine and rose.

Third declension.

• English: cantharis

• cantharis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cantharis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantharis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN