Noun: cattus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | cattus |
| Plural | cattī |
Genitive
| Singular | cattī |
| Plural | cattōrum |
Dative
| Singular | cattō |
| Plural | cattīs |
Accusative
| Singular | cattum |
| Plural | cattōs |
Ablative
| Singular | cattō |
| Plural | cattīs |
Vocative
| Singular | catte |
| Plural | cattī |
Sample Sentences
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Nulli visa ad ipsum retulit numen: nam arcus semper videtur: quem non Irim, sed viam Iridis dixit. alii celeritatis esse volunt 'nulli visa'. notandum sane etiam de Iride arcum genere masculino dicere Vergilium: Catullus et alii genere feminino ponunt, referentes ad originem, sicut 'haec cattus' et 'haec gallus' legimus. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 4th-5th century, Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii 5.610]
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Affirmant quod quanto sceleratior es, tanto citius Deus gratiam infundit: si autem adornes te, ut cattus bonis operibus, ut te Deus acceptet, nihil efficias. (They assert that the more a miscreant you are, the sooner God showers grace upon you: if, however, you should adorn yourself, like a cat, with good works, so that God accepts you, you shall bring about nothing.) [1558, Martin Luther, Theologiae Martini Lutheri Trimembris Epitome, De Tertio Statu Hominis:]
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[...] illa accepit bovem & cattum, et utrumque duxit ad forum. Cumque quiddam venisset qui bovem emere veller. Illa respondit. Nullus habebit bovem, nisi etiam emat & cattum. Cumque ille dixisset non velle emere cattum, abiit. Et statim venit alius & interrogat quanti pretii utrumque foret. Illa dixit se velle vendere cattum pro una marcha argentari, sed bovem pro denario, & sic convenerunt. (… she took the ox and the cat, and led both to the market. Anytime someone came who wanted to buy the ox, she responded: None shall have an ox, unless besides he also buys a cat. Any time someone said he did not want to buy a cat, he left. And immediately another came and asked what price for each. She said she wanted to sell a cat for one silver mark, but an ox for a denarius, and so they came to an agreement.) [1656, Guillaume Pepin, Conciones Mysticae et Morales in Septem Psalmos Poenitentiales, page 38:]
Nouns inflected like cattus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps borrowed from a Nilo-Saharan or Afroasiatic language, compare Nubian kadīs (“cat”), Arabic قِطّ (qiṭṭ, “cat, tomcat”), Classical Syriac ܩܛܘ (qaṭṭu, “cat”), or possibly a Wanderwort, compare Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”) and Proto-Germanic *kattuz.
Verbs referencing "cattus"
English Nouns
cat, Latvian Nouns
kaķis, German Nouns
Gepard.
Translations