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cacaturio

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Latin

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Etymology

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From cacō (I defecate) +‎ -turiō (desiderative suffix).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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cacāturiō (present infinitive cacāturīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

  1. to feel the need to defecate
    • 1st c. CE, anonymous, Pompeiian graffito , (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 4.1: 5242):
      quodam quidem testis eris · quid · senserim
      ubi cacaturiero · veniam
      cacatum
      One day, indeed, you will witness what I feel. When I feel like needing to shit, I'll come by and shit.
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 11.77:
      In omnibus Vacerra quod conclāvibus
      cōnsūmit hōrās et diē tōtō sedet,
      cēnāturit Vacerra, nōn cacāturit.
      When Vacerra passes his hours in everybody's room and sits there all day long, he desires to dine, not to shit.

Conjugation

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References

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  • cacaturio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cacaturio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cacaturio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung