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Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *katīnos, probably ultimately a substrate loanword or from Proto-Indo-European *ket-. Compare Serbo-Croatian kòtac (cattle-shed, weir), Old English heaðor (enclosure, jail), Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, a cup, a pint), Albanian thes (bag, sack).[1]

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Noun edit

catīnus m (genitive catīnī); second declension

  1. a deep vessel for serving up or cooking food; a large bowl, dish, or plate

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative catīnus catīnī
Genitive catīnī catīnōrum
Dative catīnō catīnīs
Accusative catīnum catīnōs
Ablative catīnō catīnīs
Vocative catīne catīnī

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References edit

  • catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catinus 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)
  • catinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • catinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “catīnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98