catinus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *katīnos, probably ultimately a substrate loanword or from Proto-Indo-European *ket-. Compare Serbo-Croatian kòtac (“cattle-shed, weir”), Old English heaþor (“enclosure, jail”), Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “a cup, a pint”), Albanian thes (“bag, sack”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈtiː.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈt̪iː.nus]
Noun
catīnus m (genitive catīnī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | catīnus | catīnī |
| genitive | catīnī | catīnōrum |
| dative | catīnō | catīnīs |
| accusative | catīnum | catīnōs |
| ablative | catīnō | catīnīs |
| vocative | catīne | catīnī |
Derived terms
Related terms
- cattia (Medieval)
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “catīnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98
Further reading
- “catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "catinus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- catinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “catinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “catinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin