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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From catīllus (“small dish”) + -ō (denominative verb-forming suffix).
Verb
catīllō (present infinitive catīllāre, perfect active catīllāvī, supine catīllātum); first conjugation
- to lick a dish
c. 200 BCE, Plautus, translator: Henry Thomas Riley, 1912, Casina, 3.2.19-22:Flagitium maxumum feci miser, propter operam illius hirqui improbi, edentuli, qui hoc mihi contraxit; operam uxoris polliceor foras, quasi catillatum.- I've done a most disgraceful action for the sake of that vile and toothless goat, who has engaged me in this. I've promised the aid of my wife out of doors, as though to go lick dishes like a dog.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From catīllō (“I lick a dish”) + -ō (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
catīllō m (genitive catīllōnis); third declension
- plate-licker, glutton, gormandizer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 3
Non-lemma forms.
Noun
catīllō
- dative/ablative singular of catīllus
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