catarrhus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ρροος (katárrhoos, “catarrh, head cold”), from κᾰτᾰρρέω (katarrhéō, “to flow down”) +‎ -ος (-os, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈtar.rus/, [käˈt̪ärːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtar.rus/, [käˈt̪ärːus]

Noun

catarrhus m (genitive catarrhī); second declension

1. (medicine) catarrh, rheum

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catarrhus	catarrhī
Genitive	catarrhī	catarrhōrum
Dative	catarrhō	catarrhīs
Accusative	catarrhum	catarrhōs
Ablative	catarrhō	catarrhīs
Vocative	catarrhe	catarrhī

Descendants

Descendants of catarrhus in other languages

• Catalan: cadarn
• → English: catarrh
• → French: catarrhe
• → German: Katarrh
• → Italian: catarro
• → Portuguese: catarro
• → Spanish: catarro

References

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