Latin edit

Etymology edit

From crāt- +‎ -īcius.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

crātīcius (feminine crātīcia, neuter crātīcium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. composed of wickerwork, wattled

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative crātīcius crātīcia crātīcium crātīciī crātīciae crātīcia
Genitive crātīciī crātīciae crātīciī crātīciōrum crātīciārum crātīciōrum
Dative crātīciō crātīciō crātīciīs
Accusative crātīcium crātīciam crātīcium crātīciōs crātīciās crātīcia
Ablative crātīciō crātīciā crātīciō crātīciīs
Vocative crātīcie crātīcia crātīcium crātīciī crātīciae crātīcia

Descendants edit

  • Franco-Provençal: grisse (place for drying chestnuts)
  • Italian: craticcio (lattice), graticcio
  • Ladin: gardizza (drinking straw)
  • Ligurian: greisjo
  • Lombard:
    gradiscia (surface for drying chestnuts) (Ticino)
    graiscia (lattice) (Como)
    griscia (cultivated field) (Lario)
  • Occitan: grèissa (rack for drying figs), grissa (both borrowed from some neighbouring language)
  • Piedmontese: grisia (type of boardgame), grisin (a hard pastry)
  • Venetian: gradizo (reed matting) (Trieste)

References edit

Further reading edit

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