catarata

Learned borrowing from Latin cataracta, from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰρρᾱ́κτης (kătărrhā́ktēs).

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ta‧ra‧ta

catarata f (plural cataratas)

1. cataract (waterfall of a river or lake that falls from a great height)

   Synonym: catadupa

2. (pathology) cataract (partial or total opacity of the ocular lens)

• “catarata”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “catarata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin cataracta, from Ancient Greek καταράκτης (kataráktēs, “down-rushing”).

• IPA^(key): /kataˈɾata/ [ka.t̪aˈɾa.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ca‧ta‧ra‧ta

catarata f (plural cataratas)

1. waterfall, cataract

   Synonym: cascada

2. (pathology) cataract (opacity of the lens in the eye)

• → Bikol Central: katarata
• → Tagalog: katarata

• “catarata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024