Catius

Latin

Etymology

From catus (“clear-sighted”, “intelligent”, “sagacious”, “wise”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ti.us/, [ˈkät̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkat.t͡si.us/, [ˈkät̪ː͡s̪ius]

Proper noun

Catius m sg (genitive Catiī or Catī); second declension

1. a Roman deity, the protector of boys, whom he made intelligent
2. a nomen — famously held by, amongst others:
   1. Quintus Catius, plebeian aedile in 210 BC and legate of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War
   2. an Epicurean philosopher (fl. mid-1st C. BC) and author of the works De Rerum Natura, De Summo Bono, etc.
   3. Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (AD 26–101), Roman consul and orator, author of the epic poem Punica
   4. Publius Catius Sabinus (fl. AD 3rd C.), consul in AD 216

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Catius
Genitive	Catiī Catī1
Dative	Catiō
Accusative	Catium
Ablative	Catiō
Vocative	Catī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Catiānus

Related terms

• Catia

References

• “Cătĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 Cătĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1”
• 2 Cătĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1”
• “Catius” on page 286/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Catia (gens) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quintus Catius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Catius (Epicurean philosopher) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Publius Catius Sabinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Publius Catius Sabinus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la