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”).

catasta f (plural cataste)

1. pile, stack

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtas.ta/

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.

• 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, 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