Caratacus

• Caractacus

From Latin Caratacus. Doublet of Caradog, Caradoc, Cedric, Craddock, Cradock, McCarthy, and McCarty.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈrætəkəs/

Caratacus

1. A 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.

• Caractacus

From Proto-Celtic *Karatākos

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈra.ta.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈraː.t̪a.kus]

Caratacus m sg (genitive Caratacī); second declension

1. A 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Caratacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.