catapulta

See also: catapultá and catapultà

Catalan

Noun

catapulta f (plural catapultes)

1. catapult

Verb

catapulta

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: catapultas, catapultât

Verb

catapulta

1. third-person singular past historic of catapulter

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Italian

Noun

catapulta f (plural catapulte)

1. catapult
2. staff sling

Verb

catapulta

1. third-person singular present indicative of catapultare
2. second-person singular imperative of catapultare

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpʊɫ̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpul̪t̪ä]

Noun

catapulta f (genitive catapultae); first declension

1. a catapult

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catapulta	catapultae
Genitive	catapultae	catapultārum
Dative	catapultae	catapultīs
Accusative	catapultam	catapultās
Ablative	catapultā	catapultīs
Vocative	catapulta	catapultae

Related terms

• catapultārius

References

• “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catapulta 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)
• catapulta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “catapulta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catapulta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin catapulta, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”), from πάλλω (pállō, “I poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.ta.ˈpuw.ta/

Noun

catapulta f (plural s)

1. catapult

Related terms

• trabuco, manganela, onagro

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kataˈpulta/ [ka.t̪aˈpul̪.t̪a]

Etymology 1

From Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).

Noun

catapulta f (plural catapultas)

1. catapult

Derived terms

• catapultar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

catapulta

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of catapultar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of catapultar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of catapultar.

Further reading

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