catascopium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατασκόπιον (kataskópion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.tasˈko.pi.um/, [kät̪äs̠ˈkɔpiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.tasˈko.pi.um/, [kät̪äsˈkɔːpium]

Noun

catascopium n (genitive catascopiī or catascopī); second declension

1. A lookout ship

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	catascopium	catascopia
genitive	catascopiī catascopī1	catascopiōrum
dative	catascopiō	catascopiīs
accusative	catascopium	catascopia
ablative	catascopiō	catascopiīs
vocative	catascopium	catascopia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “catascopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catascopium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.