cătinel
Romanian
Alternative forms
- câtinel, cătelin
Etymology
Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *cautelinus (with metathesis), from Latin cautēla, or alternatively from Latin continue or continuō (“continuously”), forms of continuus (compare similar phonetic change in către < contra); the normal result in Romanian would have been *cătinu, to which the suffix -el may have been added, in analogy with încetinel. [1]
Adverb
cătinel
- slowly, gently, easy
Synonyms
- încet, lin, domol, tiptil
References
- cătinel in Alexandru Ciorănescu, Dicționarul etimologic român, Tenerife: Universidad de la Laguna, 1958-66.