cacaturio

Latin

Etymology

From cacō (“to defecate”) + -turiō (desiderative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.kaːˈtʊ.ri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.kaˈtuː.ri.o]

Verb

cacāturiō (present infinitive cacāturīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. to feel the need to defecate
   • 1st c. CE, anonymous, Pompeiian graffito (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 4.1: 5242):

     quodam quidem testis eris · quid · senserim
     ubi cacaturiero · veniam
     cacatum

     One day, indeed, you will witness what I feel. When I feel like needing to shit, I'll come by and shit.

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 11.77:

     In omnibus Vacerra quod conclāvibus
     cōnsūmit hōrās et diē tōtō sedet,
     cēnāturit Vacerra, nōn cacāturit.

     When Vacerra passes his hours in everybody's room and sits there all day long, he desires to dine, not to shit.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cacāturiō (fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cacāturiō		cacāturīs		cacāturit		cacāturīmus		cacāturītis		cacāturiunt
	imperfect	cacāturiēbam		cacāturiēbās		cacāturiēbat		cacāturiēbāmus		cacāturiēbātis		cacāturiēbant
	future	cacāturiam		cacāturiēs		cacāturiet		cacāturiēmus		cacāturiētis		cacāturient
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cacāturiam		cacāturiās		cacāturiat		cacāturiāmus		cacāturiātis		cacāturiant
	imperfect	cacāturīrem		cacāturīrēs		cacāturīret		cacāturīrēmus		cacāturīrētis		cacāturīrent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		cacāturī		—		—		cacāturīte		—
	future	—		cacāturītō		cacāturītō		—		cacāturītōte		cacāturiuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		cacāturīre			—			cacāturiēns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cacāturiendī		cacāturiendō		cacāturiendum		cacāturiendō		—		—

References

• “cacaturio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cacaturio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• cacaturio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung