catulus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *katelos (“cub”), with parallel in Umbrian catel (“a sacrificial animal”, nom. sg.). Despite IE cognates such as Old Irish cadla (“goat”), Middle High German hatele (“goat”), Old Norse haðna (“young goat”), Serbo-Croatian kot (“(time of) having young, litter, breed”), dial. Polish kót (“place where forest animals young”), Russian око́т (okót, “lambing time, litter”), De Vaan (2008) doubts a Proto-Indo-European origin.
Sense 3 is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek σκύλαξ (skúlax).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.tu.lus/, [ˈkät̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.tu.lus/, [ˈkäːt̪ulus]
Noun
catulus m (genitive catulī, feminine catula); second declension
- whelp
- young dog, puppy, young wolf
- iron fetter
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | catulus | catulī |
| Genitive | catulī | catulōrum |
| Dative | catulō | catulīs |
| Accusative | catulum | catulōs |
| Ablative | catulō | catulīs |
| Vocative | catule | catulī |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- catellus
- catulaster
Descendants
- Spanish: cachorro
- Italian: cucciolo
- → Portuguese: cátulo
Further reading
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “catulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 183
- “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- catulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- catulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “catulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “catulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray