crocitus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin crociō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin crōcītus

From crociō (“to croak like a raven”) (present stem crōcī-) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kroːˈkiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kroˈt͡ʃiː.tus]

Noun

crōcītus m (genitive crōcītūs); fourth declension

1. the croaking of the raven

   Synonym: crocatio

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crōcītus	crōcītūs
genitive	crōcītūs	crōcītuum
dative	crōcītuī	crōcītibus
accusative	crōcītum	crōcītūs
ablative	crōcītū	crōcītibus
vocative	crōcītus	crōcītūs

References

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