catasta

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English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

catasta (plural catastae)

  1. (historical) A platform for exhibiting slaves for sale.
  2. (historical) A stage or place for torture.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catasta, from Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, establishment, institution, method, condition).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈta.sta/
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Hyphenation: ca‧tà‧sta

Noun

catasta f (plural cataste)

  1. pile, stack
    una catasta di legnoa pile of wood

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, establishment, institution, method, condition).

Pronunciation

Noun

catasta f (genitive catastae); first declension

  1. platform for exhibiting slaves for sale
  2. pile for burnings at the stake
  3. scaffold, stage

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative catasta catastae
genitive catastae catastārum
dative catastae catastīs
accusative catastam catastās
ablative catastā catastīs
vocative catasta catastae

Descendants

  • Italian: catasta
  • Portuguese: cadaste

References

  • catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catasta 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)
  • catasta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catasta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin