Noun: culcita
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | culcita |
| Plural | culcitae |
Genitive
| Singular | culcitae |
| Plural | culcitārum |
Dative
| Singular | culcitae |
| Plural | culcitīs |
Accusative
| Singular | culcitam |
| Plural | culcitās |
Ablative
| Singular | culcitā |
| Plural | culcitīs |
Vocative
| Singular | culcita |
| Plural | culcitae |
Sample Sentences
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quadripes per angustias cauernae in proximam cellam decubuit super lectum modica culcita ((having crept) on all fours through a narrow hole to the adjacent room, (he) lay down over a bed's miserable mattress) [C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero Ch. 48]
Nouns inflected like culcita
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Uncertain; proposed derivations include:
2. * According to Varro, from calcō (“to trample”).
3. * From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-. Cognates include Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”).
4. * From Proto-Indo-European *ḱol-bʰo-, like English half. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
κόλπος', English Nouns '
half'.
Verbs referencing "culcita"
English Nouns
quilt, Galician Nouns
colcha, Portuguese Nouns
colcha, English Nouns
quoit, French Nouns
couette, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
kvilt, Italian Nouns
coltrice, Asturian Nouns
coxín, French Nouns
couilte, Galician Nouns
cócedra, German Nouns
Kolter, Irish Nouns
clupaid, Middle English Nouns
quilte, Irish Nouns
cuilt.
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