Re: cutulare

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Second, where are all these forms to find at all? In medieval

Latin or

> where? The word "quatere" is not to find too in my etym. dict. and

if it

> would be it will be related to "quater"=the fourth, but not to
> "quatio:". I don't guess one will can begin anything with a root in
> latin as "quat-", maybe an "quatt-" n asymilation of "quatr-".
> Can it be these are linguistic(?) thoughts for trying to explain

curious

> forms in Romance?

If you were to look 'quatio' up at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-
bin/resolveform?lang=la (a site Piotr commended to owners of bad
Latin dictionaries long ago), you'd find it was used by Ovid,
Horace, Vergil and Catullus, and others. For myself, I was happy
enough to find it in my pocket Latin dictionary (published by
Collins).

Richard.