caterva
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See also: Caterva
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin caterva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caterva f (plural caterves)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “caterva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]caterva f (plural caterve)
Usage notes
[edit]- Used in the phrase una caterva di to means loads of, heaps of
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *katezwā, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to cassis (“net”) and catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Also compare Albanian thes (“sack, bag”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaˈter.u̯a/, [käˈt̪ɛru̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈter.va/, [käˈt̪ɛrvä]
Noun
[edit]caterva f (genitive catervae); first declension
- a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue
- a group, flock, pack (of animals)
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.20:
- Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī: Thrasyleōnem nostrum catervīs canum saevientium cīnctum atque obsessum multīsque numerō morsibus laniātum.
- I witnessed a pitiable and dismal spectacle: our Thrasyleon was surrounded and besieged by packs of fierce dogs and wounded by a great number of bites.
- Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī: Thrasyleōnem nostrum catervīs canum saevientium cīnctum atque obsessum multīsque numerō morsibus laniātum.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | caterva | catervae |
genitive | catervae | catervārum |
dative | catervae | catervīs |
accusative | catervam | catervās |
ablative | catervā | catervīs |
vocative | caterva | catervae |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caterva 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)
- caterva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
- the Chorus in Tragedy: caterva, chorus
- a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caterva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]caterva f (plural catervas)
- crowd, multitude
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- -Antes se había entibiado la religiosidad; pero ahora se ha perdido por completo en la mayor parte de las personas, y las que aún saben dirigir sus almas al cielo, se ven perseguidas, amenazadas por la caterva brutal de filósofos y revolucionarios.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “caterva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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