craticula

Latin

Etymology

From crātis f (“wickerwork, framework, grating”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Noun

crāticula f (genitive crāticulae); first declension

1. grill, grating
2. gridiron
3. griddle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crāticula	crāticulae
Genitive	crāticulae	crāticulārum
Dative	crāticulae	crāticulīs
Accusative	crāticulam	crāticulās
Ablative	crāticulā	crāticulīs
Vocative	crāticula	crāticulae

Related terms

• crāticulus
• crāticulum

Descendants

Some forms with a change of suffix to -ella

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: graticola, gratella
  • Sicilian: gradigghia
• Padanian:
  • Lombard: gradèla
  • Piedmontese: grija, gria
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: *creille
    • → English: creel
  • Old French: gradilie, greille, graïlle
    • → Galician: grella
    • Middle French: grille, grisle
      • French: grille
        • → English: grille, grill
        • → Italian: griglia
        ⇒ gril
    • → Portuguese: grelha
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: graella, grasella, graiella, grasilla, gradella, graguella, grilla, grella, griella
  • Occitan: grasilha, grilha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: gradelha
• Borrowings:
  • → English: graticule
  • → Portuguese: cratícula
  • → Spanish: cratícula

References

• “craticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• craticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “craticula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “craticula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin