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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καταλύω (katalúō, “destroy, solve”) + -τής (-tḗs, agent noun suffix)
Pronunciation
Noun
καταλυτής • (katalutḗs) m (genitive καταλυτοῦ); first declension
- (Byzantine) destroyer, resolver, abolisher
Declension
Further reading
- καταλυτής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- καταλυτής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “καταλυτής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011