Latin

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Etymology

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From crāt- +‎ -īcius.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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crātīcius (feminine crātīcia, neuter crātīcium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. composed of wickerwork, wattled

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative crātīcius crātīcia crātīcium crātīciī crātīciae crātīcia
genitive crātīciī crātīciae crātīciī crātīciōrum crātīciārum crātīciōrum
dative crātīciō crātīciae crātīciō crātīciīs
accusative crātīcium crātīciam crātīcium crātīciōs crātīciās crātīcia
ablative crātīciō crātīciā crātīciō crātīciīs
vocative crātīcie crātīcia crātīcium crātīciī crātīciae crātīcia

Descendants

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  • Franco-Provençal: grisse (place for drying chestnuts)
  • Italian: craticcio (lattice), graticcio
  • Ladin: gardizza (drinking straw)
  • Ligurian: greisjo
  • Lombard:
    gradiscia (surface for drying chestnuts) (Ticino)
    graiscia (lattice) (Como)
    griscia (cultivated field) (Lario)
  • Occitan: grèissa (rack for drying figs), grissa (both borrowed from some neighbouring language)
  • Piedmontese: grisia (type of boardgame), grisin (a hard pastry)
  • Venetan: gradizo (reed matting) (Trieste)

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Further reading

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