catorchites
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Ancient Greek κᾰτορχῑ́της (katorkhī́tēs).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka.torˈkʰiː.teːs/, [kät̪ɔrˈkʰiːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.torˈki.tes/, [kät̪orˈkiːt̪es]
Noun
[edit]catorchītēs m (genitive catorchītae); first declension
- (attributive, "of figs", catorchītēs (vīnum)) fig-wine
- c. 77-79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book XIV, §102:
- Sīc fit et sȳcītēs ē fīcō, quem aliī palmiprīmum, aliī catorchītēn vocant.
- So also is sycites, which some call "palmiprimus", others, "catorchites", produced from the fig.
Usage notes
[edit]The Naturalis Historia passage from which the main citation of this word comes contains a different word, trochin, in another version of the text, as seen here: Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.102.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | catorchītēs | catorchītae |
| genitive | catorchītae | catorchītārum |
| dative | catorchītae | catorchītīs |
| accusative | catorchītēn | catorchītās |
| ablative | catorchītē | catorchītīs |
| vocative | catorchītē | catorchītae |
Synonyms
[edit]- (fig-wine): sȳcītēs, palmiprīmus, pharnuprium, trochis
Descendants
[edit]- French: catorchite
References
[edit]- “cătorchītes (vīnum)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- catorchites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.