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Yes. The word catasta is a Scrabble US word. The word catasta is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

CATASTA,

6-letter words (1 found)

TAATAS,

5-letter words (3 found)

SCATT,TAATA,TACTS,

4-letter words (10 found)

ACTA,ACTS,CAAS,CASA,CAST,CATS,SCAT,STAT,TACT,TATS,

3-letter words (10 found)

AAS,ACT,ATS,ATT,CAA,CAT,SAC,SAT,TAS,TAT,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AS,AT,ST,TA,

You can make 30 words from catasta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of catasta

catasta

Etymology

Latin

Noun

catasta (plural catastae)

  1. (historical) A platform for exhibiting slaves for sale.
  2. (historical) A stage or place for torture.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catasta, from Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “establishment, institution, method, condition”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈta.sta/
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Hyphenation: ca‧tà‧sta

Noun

catasta f (plural cataste)

  1. pile, stack
    una catasta di legno ― a pile of wood

Anagrams

  • tascata

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατάστασις (katástasis, “establishment, institution, method, condition”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈtas.ta/, [käˈt̪äs̠t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈtas.ta/, [käˈt̪äst̪ä]

Noun

catasta f (genitive catastae); first declension

  1. platform for exhibiting slaves for sale
  2. pile for burnings at the stake
  3. scaffold, stage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italian: catasta
  • Portuguese: cadaste
    • → Spanish: codaste
      • → Catalan: codast

References

  • “catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “catasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catasta 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)
  • “catasta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “catasta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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