catilinario

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catilīnārius (“pertaining to Catiline”). By surface analysis, Catilina +‎ -ario (“-ary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ti.liˈna.rjo/
• Rhymes: -arjo
• Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧li‧nà‧rio

Adjective

catilinario (feminine catilinaria, masculine plural catilinari, feminine plural catilinarie)

1. Catilinarian
2. (figurative) violent, grim, cruel
   • 1873, Giosuè Carducci, “A proposito di alcuni giudizi su Alessandro Manzoni [About Certain Judgements on Alessandro Manzoni]”, in Prose‎^[1], UTET, published 2013, page 369:

     Che idea fosse quella del manzoniano mio padre di dare a leggere la Morale cattolica a un ragazzo, io non so: so solo che d'allora in poi per un gran pezzo […] odiai, odiai, quei libri, d'un odio catilinario.

     What kind of idea it was, on part of my Manzonian father, to make a boy read the Catholic moral, I know not: I know only that for a long time thenceforth […] I hated, hated those books, with a violent hatred.

Related terms

• catilinaria

Noun

catilinario m (plural catilinari)

1. (rare) conspirator, plotter

   Synonyms: congiurato, cospiratore

Latin

Adjective

catilīnāriō

1. dative/ablative singular masculine/neuter of catilīnārius