cratis

Latin

Probably from *kréh₂-tis (“fenced handiwork”), possibly of substrate origin; compare Proto-Germanic *hurdiz (“wickerwork door or frame, hurdle”), Old Prussian corto (“fence”).^[1]

Other theories derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥tis, from a root *kert- (“to weave, twist together”); if so, compare Latin crassus, Sanskrit कृत् (kṛt, “to spin”), and, according to Witzel,^[2] Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “reins, ladle”). However, the connection to *kert- is implicitly denied by de Vaan. The connection with Ancient Greek κύρτος (kúrtos, “weel, lobster pot”) has also been dismissed by R. S. P. Beekes.^[3]

crātis f (genitive crātis); third declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crātis, -is”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 141
^ Michael Witzel, Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts, p. 35
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κύρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 808

“cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cratis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
cratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.