gatta

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English

Noun

gatta (plural gattas)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A police officer.
    • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 167:
      They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

Afrikaans

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

gatta (plural gattas)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) police officer, cop

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡat.ta/
  • Rhymes: -atta
  • Hyphenation: gàt‧ta

Noun

gatta f (plural gatte, masculine gatto)

  1. queen (female cat), she-cat
  2. sex kitten

Derived terms

Sicilian

Alternative forms

  • 'atta (apheretic variant)
  • jatta (semiconsonant variant)
  • atta, iatta (eye dialect, non-orthographic)

Etymology

From the sonorization of Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔat.ta/ (guttural pronunciation, mostly western)
  • IPA(key): /ˈjat.ta/ (semiconsonant pronunciation, mostly eastern)
  • Hyphenation: gàt‧ta

Noun

gatta f (plural gatti)

  1. A cat, regardless of whether male or female.
    1. A female cat.
    2. A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
      Synonyms: gattuzza, gattareḍḍa; see also Thesaurus:gatta

Usage notes

  • Unlike Italian, in Sicilian the generic name for the Felis catus species is inflected in the feminine, just as in Italian the male tiger still comes out with the feminine gender la tigre (cfr. also Sicilian a trighi).

Coordinate terms

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See also

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia