catasta

Latin

catasta (plural catastae)

1. (historical) A platform for exhibiting slaves for sale.
2. (historical) A stage or place for torture.

From Latin catasta, from Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “establishment, institution, method, condition”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈta.sta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Hyphenation: ca‧tà‧sta

catasta f (plural cataste)

1. pile, stack

   una catasta di legno ― a pile of wood

• tascata

From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “establishment, institution, method, condition”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtas.ta/, [käˈt̪äs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtas.ta/, [käˈt̪äst̪ä]

catasta f (genitive catastae); first declension

1. platform for exhibiting slaves for sale
2. pile for burnings at the stake
3. scaffold, stage

First-declension noun.

• Italian: catasta
• Portuguese: cadaste
  • → Spanish: codaste
    • → Catalan: codast

• “catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catasta 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)
• “catasta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catasta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin