catillo

catillo

Latin

FWOTD – 6 April 2017

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From catīllus (small dish) + (denominative verb-forming suffix).

    Verb

    catīllō (present infinitive catīllāre, perfect active catīllāvī, supine catīllātum); first conjugation

    1. to lick a dish
      • c. 200 BCE, Plautus; translator: Henry Thomas Riley, 1912, Casina, 3.2.19-22:
        Flagitium maxumum feci miser, propter operam illius hirqui improbi, edentuli, qui hoc mihi contraxit; operam uxoris polliceor foras, quasi catillatum.
        I've done a most disgraceful action for the sake of that vile and toothless goat, who has engaged me in this. I've promised the aid of my wife out of doors, as though to go lick dishes like a dog.
    Conjugation
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

      From catīllō (to lick a dish) + (noun-forming suffix).

      Noun

      catīllō m (genitive catīllōnis); third declension

      1. plate-licker, glutton, gormandizer
      Declension

      Third-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative catīllō catīllōnēs
      genitive catīllōnis catīllōnum
      dative catīllōnī catīllōnibus
      accusative catīllōnem catīllōnēs
      ablative catīllōne catīllōnibus
      vocative catīllō catīllōnēs

      Etymology 3

      Non-lemma forms.

      Noun

      catīllō

      1. dative/ablative singular of catīllus

      References

      • catillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • "catillo", 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)
      • catillo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.