catorchites
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek κᾰτορχῑ́της (katorkhī́tēs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.torˈkʰiː.teːs/, [kät̪ɔrˈkʰiːt̪eːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.torˈki.tes/, [kät̪orˈkiːt̪es]
Noun
catorchītēs m (genitive catorchītae); first declension
- (attributive, "of figs", catorchītēs (vīnum)) fig-wine
- c. 77 CE - 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.
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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