cauterium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καυτήριον (kautḗrion), derived from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈteː.ri.um/, [käu̯ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈte.ri.um/, [käu̯ˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

cautērium n (genitive cautēriī or cautērī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) A branding iron.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cautērium	cautēria
genitive	cautēriī cautērī1	cautēriōrum
dative	cautēriō	cautēriīs
accusative	cautērium	cautēria
ablative	cautēriō	cautēriīs
vocative	cautērium	cautēria

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

Descendants

• → Old Saxon: kanteri
• → Catalan: cauteri
• → Galician: cauterio
• → Italian: cauterio
• → Portuguese: cautério
• → Spanish: cauterio

References

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