catellus

Latin

Etymology

From catulus (“whelp, puppy, young dog”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈtel.lus/, [käˈt̪ɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtel.lus/, [käˈt̪ɛlːus]

Noun

catellus m (genitive catellī); second declension

1. puppy, whelp

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	catellus	catellī
genitive	catellī	catellōrum
dative	catellō	catellīs
accusative	catellum	catellōs
ablative	catellō	catellīs
vocative	catelle	catellī

Derived terms

• catella

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãtsãl, cãtsãlu, cãtsel
• Asturian: cadiellu
• Catalan: cadell
• Old French: chael, cael
  • Middle French: chiau
    • French: chiot
• ⇒ Old Northern French: caelee
  • Norman: calèye
• Galician: cadelo
• Italian: catello
• Occitan: cadèl, cadèu
• Portuguese: cadelo
• Romanian: cățel
• Sardinian: catteddu, calleddu
• Spanish: cadillo
• → Andalusian Arabic: قَلَطِي (qalaṭī), كَلَطِي (kalaṭī)

References

• “catellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catellus 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)
• catellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.