caurio

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Latin

FWOTD – 1 October 2013

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Verb

cauriō (present infinitive caurīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

  1. to caterwaul like a cat in heat
    • 43 BCE—18, Ovid (attributed), Carmen de Philomela, 50:
      Tigrides indomitae raccant, rugiuntque leones; Panther caurit amans; pardus hiando felit.
      Untamed tigers make a hoarse sound, and lions roar; the rutting female panther caterwauls; the male panther, for uttering, snarls.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cauriō (fourth conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cauriō caurīs caurit caurīmus caurītis cauriunt
imperfect cauriēbam cauriēbās cauriēbat cauriēbāmus cauriēbātis cauriēbant
future cauriam cauriēs cauriet cauriēmus cauriētis caurient
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cauriam cauriās cauriat cauriāmus cauriātis cauriant
imperfect caurīrem caurīrēs caurīret caurīrēmus caurīrētis caurīrent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — caurī — — caurīte —
future — caurītō caurītō — caurītōte cauriuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives caurīre — — — — —
participles cauriēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
cauriendī cauriendō cauriendum cauriendō — —

References

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