caterva

Italian

Noun

caterva f (plural caterve)

1. multitude

Usage notes

• Used in the phrase una caterva di to means loads of, heaps of

Anagrams

• varcate

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈter.u̯a/, [käˈt̪ɛru̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈter.va/, [käˈt̪ɛrvä]

Noun

caterva f (genitive catervae); first declension

1. a crowd, a band, a troop
2. vocative singular of caterva

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caterva	catervae
Genitive	catervae	catervārum
Dative	catervae	catervīs
Accusative	catervam	catervās
Ablative	catervā	catervīs
Vocative	caterva	catervae

Noun

(deprecated template usage) catervā f

1. ablative singular of caterva

References

• “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caterva 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)
• caterva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    
  • the Chorus in Tragedy: caterva, chorus
    

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Spanish

Noun

caterva f (plural catervas)

1. crowd, multitude