cataracta

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cataracta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kə.təˈɾak.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.taˈɾak.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

cataracta f (plural cataractes)

1. cataract (degeneration of the eye)

Further reading

• “cataracta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καταρράκτης (katarrháktēs), from καταράσσω (katarássō, “pour down”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.taˈrak.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.taˈrak.ta]

Noun

cataracta f (genitive cataractae); first declension

1. waterfall
2. drawbridge, portcullis

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cataracta	cataractae
genitive	cataractae	cataractārum
dative	cataractae	cataractīs
accusative	cataractam	cataractās
ablative	cataractā	cataractīs
vocative	cataracta	cataractae

Descendants

Descendants

• Italian: >? cateratta, → cataratta
• → Catalan: cataracta
• → French: cataracte
• → German: Katarakt
• → Middle Dutch: cataracte
  • Dutch: cataract, katarakt (superseded)
    • Afrikaans: katarak
    • → Indonesian: katarak
• → Middle English: cataract
  • English: cataract
    • → Cebuano: katarak
    • → Marshallese: kōtrāāk
  • Scots: cataract (rare, obsolete)
• → Portuguese: catarata
• → Spanish: catarata

References

• “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cataracta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cataracta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cataracta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cataracta in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cataracta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

cataracta

1. alternative form of cataract