Katze

• Katz (chiefly in idioms)
• Katz'

Inherited from Middle High German katze, Old High German kazza, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus. Akin to Old English catt (“cat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkatsə/ (most of Germany)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtːsə/ (Austro-Bavarian, Switzerland, regional Germany)

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• Rhymes: -atsə
• Hyphenation: Kat‧ze

Katze f (genitive Katze, plural Katzen, diminutive Kätzchen n or Kätzlein n, masculine männliche Katze or Kater, feminine weibliche Katze or Kätzin or Katerin)

1. house cat, Felis silvestris catus

   Synonym: Hauskatze

2. (specifically) female house cat

   Synonym: (uncommon) Kätzin

3. cat (any member of the genus Felis)
4. (astronomy, historical) the obsolete constellation Felis

Katze is the common term to refer to a cat (both male and female ones). The derived form Kätzin is mostly restricted to poetic language and technical language.

(antonym(s) of “female cat”):

• Kater (“male cat”)

(cat):

• Säugetier

(any cat):

• Großkatze (“member of Pantherinae”)
• Kleinkatze
• Kater (“male cat”)
• Käterin (“female cat”) (Austrian, rare)
• Kätzin (“female cat”)

• Perserkatze, Perser m

• “Katze” in Duden online
• “Katze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Katze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰat͡sə/
• Rhymes: -atsə
• Syllabification: Kat‧ze

Katze f

1. plural of Katz

Katze

1. plural of Katz