catorchites

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κᾰτορχῑ́της (katorkhī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.torˈkʰiː.teːs/, [kät̪ɔrˈkʰiːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.torˈki.tes/, [kät̪orˈkiːt̪es]

Noun

catorchītēs m (genitive catorchītae); first declension

1. (attributive, "of figs", catorchītēs (vīnum)) fig-wine
   • c. 77-79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book XIV, §102:

     Sīc fit et sȳcītēs ē fīcō, quem aliī palmiprīmum, aliī catorchītēn vocant.

     So also is sycites, which some call "palmiprimus", others, "catorchites", produced from the fig.

Usage notes

The Naturalis Historia passage from which the main citation of this word comes contains a different word, trochin, in another version of the text, as seen here: Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.102.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catorchītēs	catorchītae
Genitive	catorchītae	catorchītārum
Dative	catorchītae	catorchītīs
Accusative	catorchītēn	catorchītās
Ablative	catorchītē	catorchītīs
Vocative	catorchītē	catorchītae

Synonyms

• (fig-wine): sȳcītēs, palmiprīmus, pharnuprium, trochis

Descendants

• French: catorchite

References

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