cata

See also: catá, catà, câtă, cață, cata-, and Ca-ta

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AsturianEdit

VerbEdit

cata

1. third-person singular present indicative of catar
2. second-person singular imperative of catar

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Apocope of catastrophe

NounEdit

cata f (plural catas)

1. (informal) disaster

Further readingEdit

• “cata” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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HausaEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English charter.

NounEdit

cātā̀ f (possessed form cātàr̃)

1. charter

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InterlinguaEdit

DeterminerEdit

cata

1. (quantifying) each, every

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IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [ˈkɑt̪ˠə]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈkat̪ˠə]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊt̪ˠə]

NounEdit

cata m pl

1. vocative plural of cat

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cata	chata	gcata
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek κατά (katá)

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/

PrepositionEdit

cata

1. by (in the distributive sense)

DescendantsEdit

• Asturian: cada
• Catalan: cada
• Galician: cada
• French: chaque (in part)

• Mozarabic: káta
• Occitan: cada
• Portuguese: cada
• Romanian: câte
• Spanish: cada

Etymology 2Edit

Inflected form of catus

AdjectiveEdit

cata

1. nominative feminine singular of catus
2. nominative neuter plural of catus
3. accusative neuter plural of catus
4. vocative feminine singular of catus
5. vocative neuter plural of catus

catā

1. ablative feminine singular of catus

ReferencesEdit

• cata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cata”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “cata” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

cata

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of catar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of catar

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SpanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Shortened from Catalina, a nickname given to this bird.

NounEdit

cata f (plural catas)

1. (Bolivia, Chile) budgerigar

SynonymsEdit

• periquito, cata australiana

See alsoEdit

• cotorra
• perico

Etymology 2Edit

From the verb catar

NounEdit

cata f (plural catas)

1. tasting

   cata de vinos - winetasting

2. bite, sample

VerbEdit

cata

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of catar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of catar.