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)
- Catilinarian
- (figurative) violent, grim, cruel
- 1873, Giosuè Carducci, “A proposito di alcuni giudizi su Alessandro Manzoni [About Certain Judgements on Alessandro Manzoni]”, in Prose, 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.
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Related terms
- catilinaria
Noun
catilinario m (plural catilinari)
- (rare) conspirator, plotter
- Synonyms: congiurato, cospiratore
Latin
Adjective
catilīnāriō
- dative/ablative singular masculine/neuter of catilīnārius