catulus

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *katelos (“cub”), with parallel in Umbrian catel (“a sacrificial animal”, nom. sg.). Despite IE cognates such as Old Irish cadla (“goat”), Middle High German hatele (“goat”), Old Norse haðna (“young goat”), Serbo-Croatian kot (“(time of) having young, litter, breed”), dial. Polish kót (“place where forest animals young”), Russian око́т (okót, “lambing time, litter”), De Vaan (2008) doubts a Proto-Indo-European origin.

Sense 3 is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek σκύλαξ (skúlax).

Pronunciation

Noun

catulus m (genitive catulī, feminine catula); second declension

  1. whelp
  2. young dog, puppy, young wolf
  4. iron fetter

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative catulus catulī
Genitive catulī catulōrum
Dative catulō catulīs
Accusative catulum catulōs
Ablative catulō catulīs
Vocative catule catulī

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Spanish: cachorro
  • Italian: cucciolo
  • → Portuguese: cachorro

Further reading

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “catulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 183
  • “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “catulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catulus 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)
  • catulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “catulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “catulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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