cacaturio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.kaːˈtu.ri.oː/, [käkäːˈt̪ʊrioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.kaˈtu.ri.o/, [käkäˈt̪uːrio]

Verb

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

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, Martial, 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 supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cacāturīre	—	—	—	—	—
participles		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