catus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.tus] === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Italic *katos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₃tós (“sharpened”), from *ḱeh₃- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Sanskrit शित (śitá-, “whetted, sharpened, slender”). ==== Adjective ==== catus (feminine cata, neuter catum); first/second-declension adjective clever, intelligent, sagacious, clear-thinking cunning, crafty, sly (archaic) shrill, sharp, clear-sounding ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== Catius Catō === Etymology 2 === Alternative form of cattus, possibly under the influence by folk-etymology of the above sense. ==== Noun ==== catus m (genitive catī); second declension alternative form of cattus (“cat”) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== Catus Felis catus Felis silvestris catus === References === “catus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “catus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “catus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "catus", 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) “catus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “catus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray