Cataractonium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Cataractonium. Compare cataracta (“waterfall, drawbridge”). Doublet of Catterick. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Cataractonium A former town in Roman Britain, modern-day United Kingdom, now called Catterick. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.ta.rakˈtɔ.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.ta.rakˈtɔː.ni.um] === Proper noun === Cataractonium n sg (genitive Cataractoniī or Cataractonī); second declension a town of Britannia mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → English: Cataractonium === References === “Cataroctonion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly