Cataractonium

Borrowed from Latin Cataractonium. Compare cataracta (“waterfall, drawbridge”). Doublet of Catterick. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Cataractonium

1. A former town in Roman Britain, modern-day United Kingdom, now called Catterick.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.ta.rakˈtɔ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.t̪a.rakˈt̪ɔː.ni.um]

Cataractonium n sg (genitive Cataractoniī or Cataractonī); second declension

1. a town of Britannia mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → English: Cataractonium

• “Cataroctonion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly