catinus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *katīnos, probably ultimately a substrate loanword or from Proto-Indo-European *ket-. Compare Serbo-Croatian kòtac (“cattle-shed, weir”), Old English heaðor (“enclosure, jail”), Ancient Greek κοτύλη (kotúlē, “a cup, a pint”), Albanian thes (“bag, sack”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtiː.nus/, [käˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈti.nus/, [käˈt̪iːnus]

Noun

catīnus m (genitive catīnī); second declension

1. a deep vessel for serving up or cooking food; a large bowl, dish, or plate

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catīnus	catīnī
Genitive	catīnī	catīnōrum
Dative	catīnō	catīnīs
Accusative	catīnum	catīnōs
Ablative	catīnō	catīnīs
Vocative	catīne	catīnī

Derived terms

• catillus

Related terms

• cattia (Medieval)

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãtsãn
• French: catin
• Italian: catino
• Portuguese: cadinho
• Romanian: cățân
• Spanish: catino
• Venetian: cadìn, caìn
  • → Cimbrian: kaiin

References

• “catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catinus 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)
• catinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “catinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin