canestro – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of canestro

Noun: canestro
Gender: m Hyphenation: ca‧nè‧stro
Singular mcanestro
Plural mcanestri

Sample Sentences

  • Lo vedi sempre con le spalle al sole, / con un canestro di parole nuove / calpestare nuove aiuole (You always see it with his shoulders to the sun, / with a hamper of new words / trampling new flowerbeds) [1973, “Il signor Hood”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:]

Etymology

From Latin canistrum, from Ancient Greek κάναστρον (kánastron), κάνιστρον (kánistron). Compare English canister. See: Latin Nouns 'canistrum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κάναστρον', English Nouns 'canister'.

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