caterva

== Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin caterva. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [kəˈte̞r.bə] IPA(key): (Balearic) [kəˈtɛr.və] IPA(key): (Central) [kəˈtɛr.bə] IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaˈtɛɾ.va] IPA(key): (Northwestern) [kaˈtɛr.ba] === Noun === caterva f (plural caterves) multitude ==== Derived terms ==== catèrvola === Further reading === “caterva”, 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 == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin caterva. === Noun === caterva f (plural caterve) multitude ==== Usage notes ==== Used in the phrase una caterva di to means loads of, heaps of === Anagrams === varcate == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *katerwā, of uncertain origin, though Clayton (2024) suggests Proto-Indo-European *ḱátwr̥ (“hostility”). Perhaps related to cassis (“net”) and catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Also compare Albanian thes (“sack, bag”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈtɛr.wa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈtɛr.va] === Noun === caterva f (genitive catervae); first declension a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue Synonyms: turba, manus, agmen a group, flock, pack (of animals) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: caterva → Italian: caterva → Portuguese: caterva, catrefa, catréfia → Sicilian: caterba → Spanish: caterva === References === “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “caterva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "caterva", 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) “caterva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “caterva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin caterva. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈteɾba/ [kaˈt̪eɾ.β̞a] Rhymes: -eɾba Syllabification: ca‧ter‧va === Noun === caterva f (plural catervas) crowd, multitude === Further reading === “caterva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025