catarrhus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ρροος (katárrhoos, “catarrh, head cold”), from κᾰτᾰρρέω (katarrhéō, “to flow down”) + -ος (-os, action noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaˈtar.rus/, [käˈt̪ärːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈtar.rus/, [käˈt̪ärːus]
Noun
catarrhus m (genitive catarrhī); second declension
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | catarrhus | catarrhī |
| Genitive | catarrhī | catarrhōrum |
| Dative | catarrhō | catarrhīs |
| Accusative | catarrhum | catarrhōs |
| Ablative | catarrhō | catarrhīs |
| Vocative | catarrhe | catarrhī |
Descendants
- Catalan: cadarn
- → English: catarrh
- → French: catarrhe
- → German: Katarrh
- → Italian: catarro
- → Portuguese: catarro
- → Spanish: catarro
References
- “catarrhus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- catarrhus 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)
- catarrhus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.