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catapulta

See also: catapultá, catapultà, and catapultă

English edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta. Doublet of catapult.

Noun edit

catapulta (plural catapultae or catapultæ)

  1. A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
    • 1801, Francis Grose, chapter 12, in A History of the English Army, volume 1, page 366:
      The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.
    • 1863, Thomas de Quincey, Richard Bentley and Other Writings, page 128:
      This pantomime over, Bentley recoiled, with the spring of a Roman catapulta, to his natural pursuits.
    • 1863, "An Old Cricketer", The Cricket-Bat; and how to use it, page 90:
      The catapulta was formerly an engine of war, used by the Romans for casting javelins and stones against castellated walls. A modern form of catapulta has been constructed, with a view to do away with the necessity of bowling the ball.

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

 
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Borrowed from Latin catapulta.

Noun edit

catapulta f (plural catapultes)

  1. catapult
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Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

catapulta

  1. inflection of catapultar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Corsican edit

Noun edit

catapulta f (plural catapulte)

  1. catapult

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Further reading edit

  • “catapulta” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

catapulta

  1. third-person singular past historic of catapulter

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

 
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Noun edit

catapulta f (plural catapulte)

  1. catapult
  2. staff sling

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

catapulta

  1. inflection of catapultare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

catapulta f (genitive catapultae); first declension

  1. a catapult

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative catapulta catapultae
Genitive catapultae catapultārum
Dative catapultae catapultīs
Accusative catapultam catapultās
Ablative catapultā catapultīs
Vocative catapulta catapultae

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References edit

  • “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catapulta 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)
  • catapulta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “catapulta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “catapulta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.taˈpuw.tɐ/ [ka.taˈpuʊ̯.tɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.taˈpuw.ta/ [ka.taˈpuʊ̯.ta]

  • Hyphenation: ca‧ta‧pul‧ta

Noun edit

catapulta f (plural catapultas)

  1. catapult

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French catapulter.

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Verb edit

a catapulta (third-person singular present catapultează, past participle catapultat) 1st conj.

  1. to catapult

Conjugation edit

    conjugation of catapulta (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a catapulta
gerund catapultând
past participle catapultat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present catapultez catapultezi catapultează catapultăm catapultați catapultează
imperfect catapultam catapultai catapulta catapultam catapultați catapultau
simple perfect catapultai catapultași catapultă catapultarăm catapultarăți catapultară
pluperfect catapultasem catapultaseși catapultase catapultaserăm catapultaserăți catapultaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să catapultez să catapultezi să catapulteze să catapultăm să catapultați să catapulteze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative catapultează catapultați
negative nu catapulta nu catapultați

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Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kataˈpulta/ [ka.t̪aˈpul̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ulta
  • Syllabification: ca‧ta‧pul‧ta

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).

Noun edit

catapulta f (plural catapultas)

  1. catapult
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

catapulta

  1. inflection of catapultar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading edit

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