The corpus record — Latin

canistrum

canistrum · n

a basket woven from reeds

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cănistrum — Lewis & Short

cănistrum, i, n.cănistri, ōrum, m., Pall. Nov. 17, 1, = ka/nastra,

I a basket woven from reeds (ka/nna), a bread-, fruit-, flower-, etc., basket (esp. for religious use in sacrifices), Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13; Tib. 1, 10, 27; Prop. 3 (4), 13, 28; 4 (5), 8, 12; Verg. A. 8, 180; id. G. 4, 280; Hor. S. 2, 6, 105; Ov. M. 2, 713; 8, 675; id. F. 2, 650; 4, 451; Col. 10, 277; Juv. 5, 74.—

II Canistra siccaria, baskets in which wine stood upon a table, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 706.

In the wild

canistris Vergil, Georgicon 4.280
canistro Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.20
canistris Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.254
canistris Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.13
canistris Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 2.15
canistris Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 4.16

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. canistrum (scan p. 117; entry #1669).

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