cataracta

Learned borrowing from Latin cataracta.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kə.təˈɾak.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka.taˈɾak.ta/

cataracta f (plural cataractes)

1. cataract (degeneration of the eye)

• “cataracta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Ancient Greek καταρράκτης (katarrháktēs), from καταράσσω (katarássō, “pour down”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.taˈrak.ta/, [kät̪äˈräkt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.taˈrak.ta/, [kät̪äˈräkt̪ä]

cataracta f (genitive cataractae); first declension

1. waterfall
2. drawbridge, portcullis

First-declension noun.

• → Catalan: cataracta
• → Dutch: cataract
• → French: cataracte
• → Middle English: cataract
  • English: cataract
• → Spanish: catarata

• “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cataracta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cataracta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cataracta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cataracta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cataracta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cataracta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

cataracta

1. Alternative form of cataract