cratis

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥tis from root *kert- (“to weave, twist together”), but according to Michiel de Vaan, unlikely. If so, compare Latin crassus, Sanskrit कृत् (kṛt, “to spin”) and, according to Michael Witzel, Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “reins, ladle”). The connection with Ancient Greek κύρτος (kúrtos, “weel”) has also been dismissed by R. S. P. Beekes.[1] Alternatively from *kréh₂-tis; compare Proto-Germanic *hurdiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

crātis f (genitive crātis); third declension

  1. wickerwork
  2. bundle of brush
  3. fascine
  4. hurdle

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crātis crātēs
Genitive crātis crātium
Dative crātī crātibus
Accusative crātem
crātim		 crātēs
crātīs
Ablative crāte
crātī		 crātibus
Vocative crātis crātēs

Derived terms
Derived terms

Descendants
  • Albanian: gratë
  • Catalan: grada
  • English: grate
  • Italian: grata
  • Old French: grate
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: grade
  • Romanian: gratie
  • Sicilian: grada
  • Spanish: grada

References
  • “cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cratis 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)
  • cratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 808
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