catte

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English

Noun

catte (plural cattes)

  1. Obsolete and humorous spelling of cat

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

catte

  1. vocative singular of cattus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *katta, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā, from Proto-Germanic *kattǭ.

Noun

catte f

  1. cat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: kat
    • Afrikaans: kat
      • Xhosa: ikati
      • Zulu: ikati
    • Jersey Dutch: kāt
    • Negerhollands: katje (from the Dutch diminutive)
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: kat
  • Limburgish: kat
  • West Flemish: katte

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

From Latin catta.

Noun

catte f (plural cattes)

  1. female equivalent of cat
  2. (Jersey) tiger moth caterpillar
  3. (Jersey) worm for bait

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattǭ. Cognate with Old Frisian katte, Old Saxon katta, Middle Dutch katte (Dutch kat), Old High German kazza (German Katze), Old Norse ketta (Swedish katta). The word existed in the Germanic languages in a masculine gender also, represented in Old English by catt. The word appears to be related to Late Latin cattus as well as to similar words in the Slavic and Celtic languages, but the ultimate source is uncertain. See cat for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

catte f

  1. a female cat

Declension

Descendants