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Latin
Etymology
From cacō (“I defecate”) + -turiō (desiderative suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
cacāturiō (present infinitive cacāturīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem
- to feel the need to defecate
1st c. CE, anonymous,
Pompeiian graffito , (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 4.1: 5242):
- quodam quidem testis eris · quid · senserim
ubi cacaturiero · veniam
cacatum- One day, indeed, you will witness what I feel. When I feel like needing to shit, I'll come by and shit.
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata 11.77:
- In omnibus Vacerra quod conclāvibus
cōnsūmit hōrās et diē tōtō sedet,
cēnāturit Vacerra, nōn cacāturit.- When Vacerra passes his hours in everybody's room and sits there all day long, he desires to dine, not to shit.
Conjugation
References
- “cacaturio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cacaturio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- cacaturio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung