catapulta
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta. Doublet of catapult.
Noun
[edit]catapulta (plural catapultae or catapultæ)
- A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
- 1801, Francis Grose, chapter 12, in A History of the English Army, volume 1, page 366:
- The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.
- 1863, Thomas de Quincey, Richard Bentley and Other Writings, page 128:
- This pantomime over, Bentley recoiled, with the spring of a Roman catapulta, to his natural pursuits.
- 1863, "An Old Cricketer", The Cricket-Bat; and how to use it, page 90:
- The catapulta was formerly an engine of war, used by the Romans for casting javelins and stones against castellated walls. A modern form of catapulta has been constructed, with a view to do away with the necessity of bowling the ball.
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]
Borrowed from Latin catapulta.
Noun
[edit]catapulta f (plural catapultes)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]catapulta
- inflection of catapultar:
Further reading
[edit]- “catapulta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Corsican
[edit]Noun
[edit]catapulta f (plural catapulte)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “catapulta” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]catapulta
- third-person singular past historic of catapulter
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]catapulta f (plural catapulte)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]catapulta
- inflection of catapultare:
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpʊɫ̪t̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.taˈpul.ta/, [kät̪äˈpul̪t̪ä]
Noun
[edit]catapulta f (genitive catapultae); first declension
- a catapult
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | catapulta | catapultae |
| Genitive | catapultae | catapultārum |
| Dative | catapultae | catapultīs |
| Accusative | catapultam | catapultās |
| Ablative | catapultā | catapultīs |
| Vocative | catapulta | catapultae |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: catapulta
- → Corsican: catapulta
- → English: catapulta (learned)
- → German: Katapult
- → Italian: catapulta
- → Middle French: cacapulte, catapulte, cathapulte
- → Polish: katapulta
- → Portuguese: catapulta
- → Spanish: catapulta
References
[edit]- “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “catapulta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- catapulta 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)
- catapulta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “catapulta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “catapulta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: ca‧ta‧pul‧ta
Noun
[edit]catapulta f (plural catapultas)
Related terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French catapulter. By surface analysis, catapultă + -a.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]a catapulta (third-person singular present catapultează, past participle catapultat) 1st conj.
- to catapult
Conjugation
[edit] conjugation of catapulta (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
| infinitive | a catapulta | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | catapultând | ||||||
| past participle | catapultat | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | catapultez | catapultezi | catapultează | catapultăm | catapultați | catapultează | |
| imperfect | catapultam | catapultai | catapulta | catapultam | catapultați | catapultau | |
| simple perfect | catapultai | catapultași | catapultă | catapultarăm | catapultarăți | catapultară | |
| pluperfect | catapultasem | catapultaseși | catapultase | catapultaserăm | catapultaserăți | catapultaseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să catapultez | să catapultezi | să catapulteze | să catapultăm | să catapultați | să catapulteze | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | catapultează | catapultați | |||||
| negative | nu catapulta | nu catapultați | |||||
Further reading
[edit]- catapulta in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).
Noun
[edit]catapulta f (plural catapultas)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]catapulta
- inflection of catapultar:
Further reading
[edit]- “catapulta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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