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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek κᾰτορχῑ́της (katorkhī́tēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
catorchītēs m (genitive catorchītae); first declension
- (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.
Usage notes
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.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
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