Catius

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Latin

Etymology

From catus (“clear-sighted”, “intelligent”, “sagacious”, “wise”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Catius m sg (genitive Catiī or Catī); second declension

  1. a Roman deity, the protector of boys, whom he made intelligent
  2. a nomen — famously held by, amongst others:
    1. Quintus Catius, plebeian aedile in 210 BC and legate of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War
    2. an Epicurean philosopher (fl. mid-1st C. BC) and author of the works De Rerum Natura, De Summo Bono, etc.
    3. Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (AD 26–101), Roman consul and orator, author of the epic poem Punica
    4. Publius Catius Sabinus (fl. AD 3rd C.), consul in AD 216

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Catius
genitive Catiī
Catī1
dative Catiō
accusative Catium
ablative Catiō
vocative Catī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

References

  • “Cătĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 1 Cătĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1”
  • 2 Cătĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1”
  • “Catius” on page 286/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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