catorchites

From the Ancient Greek κᾰτορχῑ́της (kătorkhī́tēs).

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catorchītēs m (genitive catorchītae); first declension

1. (attributive, "of figs", catorchītēs (vīnum)) fig-wine
   • c. 77-79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book XIV, §102:

     Sīc fit et sȳcītēs ē fīcō, quem aliī palmiprīmum, aliī catorchītēn vocant.

     So also is sycites, which some call "palmiprimus", others, "catorchites", produced from the fig.

The Naturalis Historia passage from which the main citation of this word comes contains a different word, trochin, in another version of the text, as seen here: Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.102.

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

• (fig-wine): sȳcītēs, palmiprīmus, pharnuprium, trochis

• French: catorchite

• “cătorchītes (vīnum)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catorchites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.