Caitlin

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English

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Proper noun

Caitlin (plural Caitlins)

  1. A female given name from Irish Caitlín, equivalent to English Catherine.
    • 1997, Bernard Alger Drew, The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Biographies‎, page 327:
      Beautiful, charming, rich, clever Caitlin needs one thing: love.
    • 2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club‎, page 3:
      Caitlin is sixteen and a sixth former at The Magna and is under a lot of pressure with exams.
    • 2006, Suzanne Holland, “The Integrity Conundrum”, in Carol Taylor, Roberto Dell'Oro, editors, Health And Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, And Moral Anthropology, page 114:
      Sixteen-year-old Caitlin — and all our nieces and sisters and friends — need to grow up in a culture that prizes difference, not conformity.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old French Cateline (compare Norman Cathelène).

Proper noun

Caitlin f (vocative a Chaitlin)

  1. a diminutive of the female given name Catrìona, from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Kathleen

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
Caitlin Chaitlin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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