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Latin
Etymology
Probably from *kréh₂-tis (“fenced handiwork”), possibly of substrate origin; compare Proto-Germanic *hurdiz (“wickerwork door or frame, hurdle”), Old Prussian corto (“fence”).[1]
Other theories derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥tis, from a root *kert- (“to weave, twist together”); if so, compare Latin crassus, Sanskrit कृत् (kṛt, “to spin”), and, according to Witzel,[2] Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “reins, ladle”). However, the connection to *kert- is implicitly denied by de Vaan. The connection with Ancient Greek κύρτος (kúrtos, “weel, lobster pot”) has also been dismissed by R. S. P. Beekes.[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
crātis f (genitive crātis); third declension
- wickerwork
- bundle of brush
- fascine
- hurdle
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crātis, -is”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 141
- ^ Michael Witzel, Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts, p. 35
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κύρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 808
Further reading
- “cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cratis 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)
- cratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.