cauterium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καυτήριον (kautḗrion), derived from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kau̯ˈteː.ri.um/, [käu̯ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kau̯ˈte.ri.um/, [käu̯ˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

cautērium n (genitive cautēriī or cautērī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) A branding iron.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cautērium cautēria
Genitive cautēriī
cautērī1		 cautēriōrum
Dative cautēriō cautēriīs
Accusative cautērium cautēria
Ablative cautēriō cautēriīs
Vocative cautērium cautēria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • → Old Saxon: kanteri
  • → Catalan: cauteri
  • → Galician: cauterio
  • → Italian: cauterio
  • → Portuguese: cautério
  • → Spanish: cauterio

References
  • “cauterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cauterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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