castra

castra

1. plural of castrum

• Cartas, carats

castra

1. inflection of castrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kas.tʁa/

castra

1. third-person singular past historic of castrer

• sacrât, tracas, traças

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.stra/
• Rhymes: -astra
• Hyphenation: cà‧stra

castra

1. inflection of castrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• scarta

Plural of castrum (“fort, castle”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tra/, [ˈkäs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tra/, [ˈkäst̪rä]

castra n pl (genitive castrōrum); second declension

1. an encampment, camp
2. (by extension) military service
3. a philosophical sect

• Often used in the names of places.

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• castellum
• castrum

• → Old English: ċeaster

• “castra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “castra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• castra 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)
• castra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to begin the march, break up the camp: castra movere
    
  • a permanent camp: castra stativa (Sall. Iug. 44)
    
  • winter-quarters, summer-quarters: castra hiberna, aestiva
    
  • to encamp: castra ponere, locare
    
  • to mark out a camp: castra metari (B. C. 3. 13)
    
  • to make a fortified, entrenched camp: castra munire
    
  • to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
    
  • to strengthen the camp by outposts: castra praesidiis firmare
    
  • to make a camp in common: castra coniungere, iungere (B. C. 1. 63)
    
  • to leave the camp undefended: castra nudare (B. G. 7. 70)
    
• “castra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “castra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “castra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

castra

1. inflection of castrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French castrer, Latin castrō. Cf. also cresta, which may be a doublet.

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtra/

a castra (third-person singular present castrează, past participle castrat) 1st conj.

1. to castrate

• castra in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• castrație

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastɾa/ [ˈkas.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -astɾa
• Syllabification: cas‧tra

castra

1. inflection of castrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative