caterva

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caterva.

Pronunciation

Noun

caterva f (plural caterves)

  1. multitude

Derived terms

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin caterva.

Noun

caterva f (plural caterve)

  1. multitude

Usage notes

  • Used in the phrase una caterva di to means loads of, heaps of

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *katezwā, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to cassis (“net”) and catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Also compare Albanian thes (“sack, bag”).

Pronunciation

Noun

caterva f (genitive catervae); first declension

  1. a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue
    Synonyms: turba, manus, agmen
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.496–497:
      rēgīna ad templum fōrmā pulcherrima Dīdō
      incessit magnā iuvenum stīpante catervā
      The queen at the temple – the exceedingly beautiful Dido – striding with a large retinue of youths escorting .
  2. a group, flock, pack (of animals)
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.20:
      Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī: Thrasyleōnem nostrum catervīs canum saevientium cīnctum atque obsessum multīsque numerō morsibus laniātum.
      I witnessed a pitiable and dismal spectacle: our Thrasyleon was surrounded and besieged by packs of fierce dogs and wounded by a great number of bites.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caterva catervae
Genitive catervae catervārum
Dative catervae catervīs
Accusative catervam catervās
Ablative catervā catervīs
Vocative caterva catervae

Descendants

  • → Catalan: caterva
  • → Italian: caterva
  • → Spanish: caterva

References

  • “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caterva 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)
  • caterva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    • the Chorus in Tragedy: caterva, chorus
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caterva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caterva.

Noun

caterva f (plural catervas)

  1. crowd, multitude
    • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
      -Antes se había entibiado la religiosidad; pero ahora se ha perdido por completo en la mayor parte de las personas, y las que aún saben dirigir sus almas al cielo, se ven perseguidas, amenazadas por la caterva brutal de filósofos y revolucionarios.
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