catulus
Latin
Etymology
Historically regarded as a diminutive of canis (“dog”) or maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“cub”)[1]. Cognates include Old Irish cadla and Old Norse haðna.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.tu.lus/, [ˈkät̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.tu.lus/, [ˈkäːt̪ulus]
Noun
catulus m (genitive catulī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | catulus | catulī |
| Genitive | catulī | catulōrum |
| Dative | catulō | catulīs |
| Accusative | catulum | catulōs |
| Ablative | catulō | catulīs |
| Vocative | catule | catulī |
Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: cátulo
References
- “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- catulus 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)
- catulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “catulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “catulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “catulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 183