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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καυτήριον (kautḗrion), derived from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cautērium n (genitive cautēriī or cautērī); second declension
- (Late Latin) A branding iron.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “cauterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cauterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.