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|lshtext=<b>cătăracta</b>: (also cătarracta), ae, f. (cătarractes, ae, m., Plin. and Sol.;<br /><b>I</b><br /> v. the foll.), = ὁ [[καταρράκτης]] or [[καταράκτης]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[waterfall]], in gen.; the waterfalls of the [[Euphrates]], Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 85.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. and κατ ἐξοχήυ, the [[celebrated]] [[fall]] of the [[Nile]] on the [[southern]] borders of [[Egypt]], the Cataract: novissimo catarracte, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54.—Acc. catarracten, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 59; Sol. 32: pervenit ad cataractam, Vitr. 8, 2, 6.—Plur. fem.: cataractae, [[nobilis]] insigni spectaculo [[locus]], Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 4: praecipites cataractae, Luc. 10, 317; Amm. 22, 15, 9.—<br /><b>II</b> In milit. lang., a drawbridge, portcullis, Veg. Mil. 4, 4; Liv. 27, 28, 10 and 11.—<br /><b>III</b> A [[water]]-[[sluice]], floodgate, Plin. Ep. 10, 61 (69), 4; Rutil. 1, 481 Zumpt.—<br /> A waterbird ([[that]] pounces [[down]] [[quickly]]), Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 126.