cat
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
cat
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (US, UK) enPR: kăt, IPA(key): /kæt/, [kʰæt], [kʰæt̚]
- (UK) IPA(key): /kat/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (US-Inland North) (file) - Rhymes: -æt
- Homophones: Kat, khat, qat
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.
The Germanic word is generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial),[1] from an Afroasiatic language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago,[2][3] and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago[4]), especially after they became popular in Egypt.[2][3] However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet[5] and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) kadīs as possible sources or cognates,[6] but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa).[7] Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t,[8] but John Huehnergard says "the source [...] was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."[7]
It may be a Wanderwort.[9] Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).[10]
Related to Scots cat, West Frisian kat, North Frisian kåt and kaat, Dutch kat, Danish kat, Norwegian katt, Swedish katt, German Low German Katt and Katte, German Katze, Alemannic German Chatz, Icelandic köttur, Afrikaans kat, Latin cattus, French chat, Norman cat, Occitan cat, Portuguese gato, Spanish gato, Aromanian cãtush, Scottish Gaelic cat, Irish cat, Breton kazh, Welsh cath, Cornish kath, as well as Ancient Greek κάττα (kátta), Greek γάτα (gáta), and from the same ultimate source Russian кот (kot), Ukrainian кіт (kit), Belarusian кот (kot), Polish kot, Kashubian kòt, Lithuanian katė, and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu), Basque katu, Hebrew חתול (khatúl), Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs) (from Berber, probably from Latin).
Alternative formsEdit
- catte (obsolete)
NounEdit
cat (plural cats)
- An animal of the family Felidae:
- 2011, Karl Kruszelnicki, Brain Food, →ISBN, page 53:
- Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
- Synonyms: felid, feline, (member of the subfamily Pantherinae) pantherine, (technically, all members of the genus Panthera) panther
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8thc.]
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
- 1977, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush, St. Martin's Press, page 44:
- I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm.
- 1985 January, George Laycock, "Our American Lion", in Boy Scouts of America, Boys' Life, 28.
- If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty cat.
- 2014, Dale Mayer, Rare Find. A Psychic Visions Novel, Valley Publishing:
- She felt privileged to be here, living the experience inside the majestic cat [i.e. a tiger]; privileged to be part of their bond, even for only a few hours.
- A person:
- (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman. [from early 13thc.]
- 1835 September, anonymous, "The Pigs", in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 9, 156.
- But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
- Synonym: bitch
- 1835 September, anonymous, "The Pigs", in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 9, 156.
- An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- 2008, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (lyrics and music), “Hold on to Yourself”:
- I turn on the radio / There's some cat on the saxophone / Laying down a litany of excuses
- (slang) A person (usually male).
- 1972, “Starman”, in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, performed by David Bowie:
- Didn't know what time it was the lights were low / I leaned back on my radio / Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll 'lotta soul, he said
- 1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77.
- BALDWIN: That's what we were talking about before. And by the way, you did not have to tell me that you think your father is a groovy cat; I knew that.
- 1998, “Fiend”, in Respect, performed by Shaquille O'Neal:
- What fags are true I know what Mack's might do
I'm quite familiar with cats like you
Provoke to get me give me a good reason to smoke me
Try to break me but never wrote me)
- 2006, Masta Ace (lyrics), “Sick of it all”, in Pariah:
- I am sick of rappers claiming they hot when they really not
I am sick of rappers bragging about shit they ain’t really got
These cats stay rapping about cars they don’t own
I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don’t bone.[…]
And I am sick of all these cats with no talent
That never lived in the hood but yet their lyrics be so violent.
- (slang) A prostitute. [from at least early 15thc.]
- 1999, Carl P. Eby, Hemingway's Fetishism. Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood, State University of New York Press, page 124:
- "Tell me. Willie said there was a cat in love with you. That isn't true, is it?" "Yes. It's true," Hudson corrects her, letting her think that by "cat" he means prostitute.
- (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman. [from early 13thc.]
- (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- 2009, Olof A. Eriksen, Constitution - All Sails Up and Flying, Outskirts Press, page 134:
- Overhaul down & hook the cat, haul taut. Walk away the cat. When up, pass the cat head stopper. Hook the fish in & fish the anchor.
- (chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- 1839, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, testimony by Henry L. Pinckney (Assembly No. 335), page 44:
- […] he whipped a black man for disobedience of his orders fifty lashes; and again whipped him with a cat, which he wound with wire, about the same number of stripes; […] he used this cat on one other man, and then destroyed the cat wound with wire.
- (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
- (archaic, uncountable) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
- The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
- (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing:
- "What the hell, so this broad's got a prematurely-gray cat."
- 2005, Carolyn Chambers Sanders, Sins & Secrets, Hachette Digital:
- As she came up, she tried to put her cat in his face for some licking.
- 2007, Franklin White, Money for Good, Simon and Schuster, page 64:
- I had a notion to walk over to her, rip her apron off, sling her housecoat open and put my finger inside her cat to see if she was wet or freshly fucked because the dream I had earlier was beginning to really annoy me.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- 2000, Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy, Profile Books, page 97:
- From behind the narrow slits in the walls of Castellar, crossbowmen and archers took aim at the juddering cat as it came closer.
Derived termsEdit
- a cat can look at a king
- a cat in gloves catches no mice
- a cat in hell's chance
- a cat may look at a king
- Abyssinian cat
- African golden cat (Caracal aurata)
- all cats are grey in the dark, all cats are grey by night
- alley cat
- Andean cat (Leopardus jacobitus)
- Arnold's cat map
- Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii)
- barn cat
- bay cat (Catopuma badia)
- bear cat
- bell the cat
- Bengal cat
- big cat
- black cat
- black-footed cat (Felis negripes)
- bobcat (Lynx rufus)
- Bombay cat
- Burmese cat, Burmese
- cactus cat
- calico cat
- care killed the cat
- cat and dog
- cat and dog life
- cat and kitten sneaking
- cat and mouse
- cat around
- cat bear
- cat bird
- cat box
- cat burglary
- cat café
- cat cafe
- cat calling the kettle black
- cat cracker
- cat door
- cat fight
- cat flap
- cat food
- cat fur
- cat got someone's tongue, cat got your tongue?
- cat hole
- cat house
- cat ice
- cat in hell's chance
- cat in the meal tub
- cat in the meal-tub
- cat in the sack
- cat lady
- cat litter
- cat liver fluke
- cat malogen
- cat man
- cat meat
- cat milk
- cat napper
- cat nip
- cat o' mountain
- cat organ
- cat piss
- cat scratch disease
- cat scratch fever
- cat sit
- cat squirrel
- cat state
- cat stretch
- cat tax
- cat that ate the canary, cat that swallowed the canary
- cat that got the cream
- cat thyme
- cat tongue
- cat tower
- cat train
- cat tree
- cat unit
- cat wagon
- cat-and-mouse
- cat-block
- cat-burglar, cat burglar
- cat-burglarize
- cat-burgle
- cat-call
- cat-cow
- cat-eye
- cat-eyed
- cat-flap
- cat-footed
- cat-fur
- cat-harpin
- cat-harping
- cat-hole
- cat-lap
- cat-lick
- cat-like
- cat-man
- cat-nap, cat nap, catnap
- cat-napper
- cat-nip
- cat-o-nine
- cat-o'-nine
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- cat-rigged
- cat-salt
- cat-scratch fever
- cat-sit
- cat-stick
- cat-tail sedge
- cat-trap
- cat-witted
- catbird
- catboy
- catcall
- caterole
- caterwaul
- catfish
- catgirl
- catgut
- cathead, cat-head
- cathouse, cat-house
- catkin
- catlap
- catless
- catlet
- catlike
- catling
- catloaf
- catly
- catmint
- catnip
- cat's cradle
- cat's eye
- cat's meat
- cat's meow
- cat's pajamas, the cat's pyjamas
- cat's paw
- cats rule, dogs drool
- cat's whisker
- cat's whiskers
- catshit
- catstail
- catsuit
- cattail
- cattery
- cattish
- catty
- Caturday
- catwalk, cat-walk
- channel cat
- Cheshire cat
- chessy cat
- Chinese desert cat
- Chinese mountain cat
- civet cat
- community cat
- cool cat
- coon cat
- copy cat
- copy-cat
- copycat
- curiosity killed the cat
- dead cat
- dead cat bounce
- dead-cat bounce
- desert cat
- different breed of cat
- dog and cat
- dogs have masters, cats have staff
- domestic cat
- duck-billed cat
- duckbill cat
- enough to make a cat laugh
- false saber-toothed cat
- false sabre-toothed cat
- farm cat
- fat cat
- fat-cat
- feral cat
- fight like cat and dog
- fight like cats and dogs
- fisher cat (Martes pennanti)
- fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus
- flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps)
- flying cat
- fraidy cat
- fraidy-cat
- Geoffroy's cat
- gib cat
- gib-cat
- great cat
- grin like a Cheshire cat
- he-cat
- hep cat
- hep-cat
- hepcat
- house cat
- housecat
- hunting cat
- hydrophobia cat
- Iriomote cat
- Janus cat
- Japan cat
- Java cat
- jungle cat
- kick at the cat
- Kilkenny cat
- kit-cat
- kitty cat
- kitty-cat
- lap cat
- lead a cat-and-dog life
- leopard cat
- let the cat out
- let the cat out of the bag
- like a cat in a strange garret
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- like a cat on hot bricks
- like herding cats
- like the cat that got the cream
- little spotted cat
- lolcat
- look like something the cat brought in
- look like something the cat dragged in
- look what the cat dragged in
- look what the cat drug in
- look what the cat's dragged in
- look who the cat dragged in
- Maine Coon cat, Maine Coon
- make a cat laugh
- Maltese cat
- Manx cat, Manx
- marbled cat
- miner's cat (Bassariscus astutus)
- mountain cat
- musk cat
- native cat
- nervous as a cat
- nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- Norwegian forest cat
- not enough room to swing a cat
- not while pussy's a cat
- old cat
- painted cat
- Pallas' cat
- Pallas cat
- Pallas's cat
- pampas cat
- Pantanal cat
- Persian cat, Persian
- play the cat and banjo with
- pussy cat
- put the cat among the pigeons
- rain cats and dogs
- ram-cat
- reduced cat
- ring-tailed cat (Bassariscus astutus)
- Russian Blue cat, Russian Blue
- rusty-spotted cat
- saber-toothed cat
- sabre-toothed cat
- sand cat
- Savannah cat
- scaredy cat
- scaredy-cat
- Schrödinger's cat
- see which way the cat jumps
- Serengeti cat
- set the cat among the pigeons
- she-cat
- Siamese cat, Siamese
- sick as a cat
- singed cat
- skin the cat
- so help me cat
- spokescat
- stink-cat
- tabby cat, tabby
- tear a cat
- tear-cat
- the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
- there are many ways to skin a cat, there's more than one way to skin a cat
- tiger cat
- tip-cat
- toddy cat
- tom cat, tomcat
- tom-cat
- top cat
- tortoiseshell cat
- troll cat
- tuxedo cat
- Van cat
- wait for the cat to jump
- walk back the cat
- walk the cat back
- when the cat's away the mice will play
- whip the cat
- wildcat, wild cat wild-cat
- wobbly cat syndrome
- wolf-cat
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 226:
- The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht …
- 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 226:
- (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (slang) To vomit.
- To go wandering at night.
- 1998, Mary Spencer, Lady's Wager, page 324:
- "He doesn't realize that I know," Lord Callan said, "but it's been pretty obvious that most of his catting about London's darker alleys has been a search for his origins.
- 2010, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, page 18:
- This was going to be my first try at catting out. I went looking for somebody to cat with me.
- 2012, Valerie Hansen, Wages of Sin:
- My own dear wife could have tended to his needs if she hadn't been out catting.
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- 1932, Hugh Brooke, Man Made Angry, page 134:
- Men from young to middleaged, with matt faces, vivacious and brightly dressed, catted together in gay groups.
- 1996, Alistair Boyle, The Unlucky Seven:
- They smiled, touched, rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows, as they relived the audition and catted about some of their competition.
- 2016, Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, page 293:
- In the story, Lady Ina gossiped and catted about a parade of the rich and famous—Jackie Kennedy looking like an exaggerated version of herself, Princess Margaret so boring she made people fall asleep, Gloria Vanderbilt so ditzy she didn't recognize her first husband.
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.
NounEdit
cat (plural cats)
- (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
VerbEdit
cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)
- (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Etymology 3Edit
Abbreviations.
NounEdit
cat (plural cats)
- (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- Abbreviation of catapult.
- a carrier's bow cats
- Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
- Abbreviation of catamaran.
- Abbreviation of category.
- Abbreviation of catfish.
- 1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!:
- She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
- 1916, M. Shults, "Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos", in Field and Stream, vol. 21, 478.
- Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.
- Abbreviation of caterpillar.
- (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- Abbreviation of computed axial tomography. Often used attributively, as in “CAT scan” or “CT scan”.
AdjectiveEdit
cat (not comparable)
- (Ireland, colloquial) Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
- The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ian Sample, DNA research identifies homeland of the domestic cat, in The Guardian (29 June 2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Claudio Ottoni, Wim Van Neer, Eva-Maria Geigl, et al, The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world, in Nature: Ecology & Evolution, volume 1 (19 June 2017) (doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139); summarized e.g. by PLOS
- ^ Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson, The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour (→ISBN), page 93
- ^ Pictet, Adolphe (1859) Les origines indo-européennes, ou Les Aryas primitifs: essai de paléontologie linguistique, volume I, Paris: J. Cherbuliez, page 381
- ^ Otto Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, vol. 1: Säugetiere (Leipzig, 1909), 75; Walther von Wartburg, ed. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, vol. 2 (Basel: R. G. Zbinden, 1922–1967), 520.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 John Huehnergard, “Qitta: Arabic Cats”, in Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms, ed. Beatrice Gruendler (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 407–18.
- ^ Jean-Paul Savignac, Dictionnaire français-gaulois, s.v. "chat" (Paris: Errance, 2004), 82.
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Katze”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 362
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kattōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
AnagramsEdit
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Malay cat, from Min Nan 漆 (chhat).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat (first-person possessive catku, second-person possessive catmu, third-person possessive catnya)
- paint (substance)
Affixed termsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “cat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish catt, from Latin cattus.
PronunciationEdit
- (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /kɑt̪ˠ/
- (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kat̪ˠ/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /kʊt̪ˠ/ (as if spelled cut)
NounEdit
cat m (genitive singular cait, nominative plural cait)
- cat (domestic feline; member of the Felidae)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- caitín (“catkin”)
- cat crainn (“pine marten”)
- cat Manannach (“Manx cat”)
- cat mara (“catfish”)
- catach (“curly-haired”, adjective)
- catachas (“heat (in a cat)”)
- catsúil (“ogle”)
- catúil (“feline”, adjective)
- fearchat (“tomcat”)
- liopardchat (“leopard-cat”)
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cat | chat | gcat |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cat”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cat”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 121
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “cat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
MalayEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat (Jawi spelling چت, informal 1st possessive catku, 2nd possessive catmu, 3rd possessive catnya)
- paint (substance)
Affixed termsEdit
- bercat
- mengecat (active): to paint
- dicat (passive): to be painted
- catan: painting (an artwork in the form of a painted picture)
- pengecatan: the action of applying paint to something (e.g. a surface, etc.)
- pengecat: painter (a person whose job is paining buildings)
Further readingEdit
- “cat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English catt, catte; this is in turn from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat (plural cattes)
- cat (feline)
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “cat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Northern French cat (variant of Old French chat) from Late Latin cattus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat m (plural cats, feminine catte)
- cat
- c. 1830, George Métivier, ‘Lamentations de Damaris’:
- Où'est donc qu'j'iron, mé et mes puches / Ma catte, et l'reste de l'écu?
- 2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘D'la gâche de Guernési’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, page 20:
- Ils d'visirent pour enne haeure, mais la Louise était pas chagrinaïe au tour sa pâte, pasqué a savait que le cat était à gardaïr la pâte caoude. (They talked for an hour, but Louise was not worried about her dough, because she knew that the cat was keeping the dough warm.)
- c. 1830, George Métivier, ‘Lamentations de Damaris’:
- (Jersey) common dab (Limanda limanda)
Derived termsEdit
- catchiéthe (“cat-flap”)
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
cat m (oblique plural caz or catz, nominative singular caz or catz, nominative plural cat)
- (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of chat
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat n (plural caturi)
- (dated) floor (storey)
- 1892, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Mr. Vucea:
- Mi-aduc bine aminte că unul sărea de la al cincilea cat, și c-o mână își ținea pălăria. Grozav îi era de pălărie!
- I remember well that one was jumping from the fifth floor, and was holding his hat with one hand. That proud was he of the hat!
- Mi-aduc bine aminte că unul sărea de la al cincilea cat, și c-o mână își ținea pălăria. Grozav îi era de pălărie!
- 1892, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Mr. Vucea:
DeclensionEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish catt, borrowed from Late Latin cattus. Cognates include Irish cat and Manx kayt.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cat m (genitive singular cait, plural cait)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
---|---|
Radical | Lenition |
cat | chat |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- Colin Mark (2003), “cat”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 118