cataracta

== Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cataracta. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kə.təˈɾak.tə] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ka.taˈɾak.ta] === Noun === cataracta f (plural cataractes) cataract (degeneration of the eye) === Further reading === “cataracta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek καταρράκτης (katarrháktēs), from καταράσσω (katarássō, “pour down”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ka.taˈrak.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ka.taˈrak.ta] === Noun === cataracta f (genitive cataractae); first declension waterfall drawbridge, portcullis ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cataracta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cataracta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cataracta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers cataracta in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “cataracta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Middle English == === Noun === cataracta alternative form of cataract