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Latin
Etymology
From crātis f (“wickerwork, framework, grating”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Noun
crāticula f (genitive crāticulae); first declension
- grill, grating
- gridiron
- griddle
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Some forms with a change of suffix to -ella
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “craticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- craticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “craticula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “craticula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin