caterva

Latin > English

caterva catervae N F :: crowd/cluster; troop, company, band of men/followers/actors; flock/herd/swarm

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

căterva: ae, f.,
I a crowd, troop, a band of men; in the sing. and plur. (class. in prose and poet.; syn.: turba, manus, agmen).
I In gen.: comitum, Lucr. 2, 628; cf. id. 2, 611; Verg. A. 1, 497; 11, 533; Ov. M. 12, 216: Postumius obviam cum bene magnā catervā suā venit, Cic. Mur. 33, 69; so id. de Or. 1, 40, 184; cf. Sall. C. 14, 1: catervae testium, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 113: contra dicentium, id. Tusc. 1, 31, 77: pugilum, Suet. Calig. 18: infernae, Tib. 1, 2, 47 al.— Poet., of animals: pecudum, Lucr. 6, 1092: avium, flocks, Verg. A. 11, 456: canum, App. M. 4, p. 151, 26: anguinea, Tib. 3, 4, 87.—
   B Trop.: verborum. a farrago of words, Gell. 15, 2, 3.—
II Esp.
   A In milit. lang. freq., a body of soldiers, a troop, company, band; esp. of the loose order of barbarian nations (opp. to the Roman legions); cf. Veg. Mil. 2, 2; Isid. Orig. 9, 3, 46; so Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; Tac. A. 1, 56; 2, 17; 2, 45; 12, 33; Tib. 1, 2, 67; Verg. A. 8, 593; 12, 264; Hor. C. 1, 8, 16 al.—Of foot-soldiers (opp. equites), Verg. A. 7, 804; 11, 433; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 190.—Rare of Roman troops, Petr. poët. 124, 281; or of cavalry, Sen. Agam. 598.—
   B In dramatic lang., the whole company or troop of actors (usu. called grex). Plaut. Capt. fin.; and perh. also id. Cas. fin.; cf. Cic. de. Or 3, 50, 196; id. Sest. 55. 118.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

căterva,¹⁰ æ, f.,
1 corps de troupes, bataillon, troupe, [surtout] bande guerrière, troupe de barbares par opp. aux légions] : catervæ Germanorum Tac. Ann. 1, 56, bandes de guerriers Germains ; conducticiæ catervæ Nep. Chabr. 1, 2, bandes de mercenaires, cf. Tac. Ann. 2, 45 || escadron : Virg. En. 8, 593
2 [en gén.] troupe, foule : catervæ testium Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 113, foules de témoins, cf. Cæl. 14 ; Tusc. 1, 77 ; catervæ avium Virg. En. 11, 496, bandes d’oiseaux || troupe d’acteurs ou de chanteurs : Cic. de Or. 3, 196 || [fig.] vilis verborum caterva Gell. 15, 2, 3, tas de mots grossiers.

Latin > German (Georges)

caterva, ae, f. (umbr. kateramu), der geschlossene Haufe, die Truppe, Schar, I) eig.: A) v. Menschen: 1) im allg.: magna togatorum, Cic.: magna iuvenum, Verg.: obviam cum bene magna caterva sua venire, Cic. – Plur., catervae testium, Cic.: catervae patriciorum iuvenum, Liv. – 2) insbes.: a) Truppe, Schar Soldaten, bes. barbarischer Völker, von Mietsoldaten, im Gegensatz zu den röm. legiones, Hor., Tac. u.a.: c. conducticiae, Nep. – b) die ganze Schauspielertruppe, gew. grex gen., Plaut. u. Cic.: ähnl. cat. gladiatoria, Caecil. com. 38. – c) der Chor im Drama, Cic. de or. 3, 196. – B) v. Tieren, Lucr. u. Verg. – II) übtr., v. Abstrakten: vilis et incondita verborum caterva, Wortschwall, Gell. 15, 2, 3. – / katerva geschr., Sedul. hymn. 2, 37.

Translations

crowd

Albanian: turmë; Arabic: حَشْد‎, زَحْمَة‎; Egyptian Arabic: زحمة‎; Armenian: ամբոխ, բազմություն; Azerbaijani: izdiham; Belarusian: натоўп; Bulgarian: навалица, тълпа; Burmese: လူစုလူဝေး; Catalan: multitud, gentada, gernació; Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏣᏘ; Chinese Mandarin: 人群, 群眾, 群众; Czech: dav; Danish: flok, mængde, folkehav, folkemængde; Dutch: menigte, schare, massa; Esperanto: amaso, homamaso; Estonian: rahvahulk, hulk; Finnish: väkijoukko; French: foule; Galician: foula, grea, catropea, poulareda; Georgian: ბრბო, გროვა; German: Gedränge, Menge, Volk, Menschenmenge, Menschenmasse; Greek: πλήθος; Ancient Greek: ὄχλος, πλῆθος; Hebrew: הָמוֹן‎, הִתְקַהֲלוּת‎; Hindi: जनता, भीड़; Hungarian: tömeg; Icelandic: þyrping; Ido: turbo; Irish: slua, dream; Italian: folla, turba, torma, fiumana, stuolo, massa, moltitudine; Japanese: 人込み, 群衆, 大勢; Kazakh: жиын, жұрт, тобыр, топ; Khmer: មនុស្សកុះករ, មនុស្សកកកុញ, មហាវគ្គ, ហ្វូងមនុស្ស, ហ្វូង; Korean: 군중(群衆), 무리; Kurdish Central Kurdish: قەلەباڵغی‎; Kyrgyz: жыйын; Ladino: munchidumbre, djentoria; Lao: ຝູງຊົນ; Latin: frequentia, caterva, vulgus, agmen, multitudo, turba; Latvian: pūlis; Lithuanian: minia; Macedonian: толпа; Maori: mātoru, nuipuku; Marathi: जमाव, समुह, गर्दी; Mongolian Cyrillic: бөөн хүн; Nepali: जमात, भीडभाड; Norman: foule, fliotchet; Norwegian Bokmål: flokk, mengde, folkehav, folkemengde; Persian: جمعیت‎, انبوه‎; Plautdietsch: Menj; Polish: tłum; Portuguese: multidão; Quechua: ch'unku; Romanian: mulțime, masă de oameni, gloată, aglomerație; Russian: толпа; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: гу̑жва, свѐтина, свјѐтина, ма̀са; Roman: gȗžva, svètina, svjètina, màsa; Slovak: dav; Slovene: množica; Spanish: muchedumbre, turba, multitud, montón, vulgo; Swahili: umati; Swedish: folkmängd, folkmassa, massa; Tagalog: libumbon; Tajik: анбӯҳ, издиҳом; Telugu: గుంపు, బృందము; Thai: มหาชน; Tibetan: མི་ཚོགས; Turkish: kalabalık, izdiham; Turkmen: märeke; Ukrainian: натовп, гурт; Urdu: بھیڑ‎; Uzbek: olomon; Vietnamese: đám đông; Welsh: torf; West Frisian: kloft; ǃXóõ: dzâa

Latin > Chinese

caterva, ae. f. :: 步兵一隊。一羣馬兵。一夥人