catellus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From catulus (“whelp, puppy, young dog”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈtɛl.lʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈtɛl.lus]
Noun
catellus m (genitive catellī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | catellus | catellī |
| genitive | catellī | catellōrum |
| dative | catellō | catellīs |
| accusative | catellum | catellōs |
| ablative | catellō | catellīs |
| vocative | catelle | catellī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- Aragonese: cadiello, cadiell, cadell
- Aromanian: cãtsãl, cãtsãlu, cãtsel
- Asturian: cadiellu
- Catalan: cadell
- Old French: chael, cael
- Middle French: chiau
- French: chiot
- Middle French: chiau
- ⇒ Old Northern French: caelee
- Norman: calèye
- Galician: cadelo
- Italian: catello
- Occitan: cadèl, cadèu
- Portuguese: cadelo
- Romanian: cățel
- Sardinian: catteddu, calleddu
- Spanish: cadillo
- → Andalusian Arabic: قَلَطِي (qalaṭī), كَلَطِي (kalaṭī)
References
- “catellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “catellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "catellus", 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)
- “catellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.