catilinario

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catilīnārius (pertaining to Catiline). By surface analysis, Catilina + -ario (-ary).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ti.liˈna.rjo/
  • Rhymes: -arjo
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ti‧li‧nà‧rio

Adjective

catilinario (feminine catilinaria, masculine plural catilinari, feminine plural catilinarie)

  1. Catilinarian
  2. (figurative) violent, grim, cruel
    • 1873, Giosuè Carducci, “A proposito di alcuni giudizi su Alessandro Manzoni [About Certain Judgements on Alessandro Manzoni]”, in Prose, UTET, published 2013, page 369:
      Che idea fosse quella del manzoniano mio padre di dare a leggere la Morale cattolica a un ragazzo, io non so: so solo che d'allora in poi per un gran pezzo [] odiai, odiai, quei libri, d'un odio catilinario.
      What kind of idea it was, on part of my Manzonian father, to make a boy read the Catholic moral, I know not: I know only that for a long time thenceforth [] I hated, hated those books, with a violent hatred.

Noun

catilinario m (plural catilinari)

  1. (rare) conspirator, plotter
    Synonyms: congiurato, cospiratore

Latin

Adjective

catilīnāriō

  1. dative/ablative singular masculine/neuter of catilīnārius
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