craticius
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kraːˈtiː.ki.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kraˈt̪iː.t͡ʃi.us]
Adjective
crātīcius (feminine crātīcia, neuter crātīcium); first/second-declension adjective
- composed of wickerwork, wattled
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | crātīcius | crātīcia | crātīcium | crātīciī | crātīciae | crātīcia | |
| genitive | crātīciī | crātīciae | crātīciī | crātīciōrum | crātīciārum | crātīciōrum | |
| dative | crātīciō | crātīciae | crātīciō | crātīciīs | |||
| accusative | crātīcium | crātīciam | crātīcium | crātīciōs | crātīciās | crātīcia | |
| ablative | crātīciō | crātīciā | crātīciō | crātīciīs | |||
| vocative | crātīcie | crātīcia | crātīcium | crātīciī | crātīciae | crātīcia | |
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: grisse (“place for drying chestnuts”)
- Italian: craticcio (“lattice”), graticcio
- Ladin: gardizza (“drinking straw”)
- Ligurian: greisjo
- Lombard:
- gradiscia (“surface for drying chestnuts”) (Ticino)
- graiscia (“lattice”) (Como)
- griscia (“cultivated field”) (Lario)
- Occitan: grèissa (“rack for drying figs”), grissa (both borrowed from some neighbouring language)
- Piedmontese: grisia (“type of boardgame”), grisin (“a hard pastry”)
- Venetan: gradizo (“reed matting”) (Trieste)
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cratīcius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1286
Further reading
- “craticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- craticius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.