caurio

Latin

FWOTD – 1 October 2013

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.ri.oː/, [ˈkäu̯rioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.ri.o/, [ˈkäːu̯rio]

Verb

cauriō (present infinitive caurīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. to caterwaul like a cat in heat
   • 43 BCE—18, Ovid (attributed), Carmen de Philomela, 50:

     Tigrides indomitae raccant, rugiuntque leones; Panther caurit amans; pardus hiando felit.

     Untamed tigers make a hoarse sound, and lions roar; the rutting female panther caterwauls; the male panther, for uttering, snarls.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cauriō (fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cauriō		caurīs		caurit		caurīmus		caurītis		cauriunt
	imperfect	cauriēbam		cauriēbās		cauriēbat		cauriēbāmus		cauriēbātis		cauriēbant
	future	cauriam		cauriēs		cauriet		cauriēmus		cauriētis		caurient
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cauriam		cauriās		cauriat		cauriāmus		cauriātis		cauriant
	imperfect	caurīrem		caurīrēs		caurīret		caurīrēmus		caurīrētis		caurīrent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		caurī		—		—		caurīte		—
	future	—		caurītō		caurītō		—		caurītōte		cauriuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		caurīre			—			cauriēns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cauriendī		cauriendō		cauriendum		cauriendō		—		—

References

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