craticius

Latin

Etymology

From crāt- +‎ -īcius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kraːˈtiː.ki.us/, [kräːˈt̪iːkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kraˈti.t͡ʃi.us/, [kräˈt̪iːt͡ʃius]

Adjective

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

1. composed of wickerwork, wattled

Declension

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

• 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

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cratīcius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1286

Further reading

• “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.