gattu

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡatːu/

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. Alternative form of ghjattu

References

• “ghjattu, gattu, ghiattu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin cattus. Cognates include Italian gatto and Spanish gato.

Noun

gattu m (plural gattos)

1. cat

Synonyms

• mussittu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• 'attu (apheretic variant)
• jattu (semiconsonant variant)
• attu, iattu (eye dialect, non-orthographic)

Etymology

From the sonorization of Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔat.tu/ (guttural pronunciation, mostly western)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjat.tu/ (semiconsonant pronunciation, mostly eastern)
• Hyphenation: gàt‧tu

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. A male cat.
2. A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.

   Synonyms: gattuzzu, gattareḍḍu; see also Thesaurus:gattu

Usage notes

• Unlike Italian, in Sicilian the generic name for the Felis catus species is inflected in the feminine, just as in Italian the male tiger still comes out with the feminine gender la tigre (cfr. also Sicilian a trighi).

Coordinate terms

• gatta

Derived terms

• gattara
• gattareḍḍu
• gattuzzu
• sauta a gatta

 

Related terms

• cani
• surci

 

See also

• gaḍḍina
• gaḍḍu