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Corsican
Pronunciation
Noun
gattu m (plural gatti)
- Alternative form of ghjattu
References
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin cattus. Cognates include Italian gatto and Spanish gato.
Noun
gattu m (plural gattos)
- cat
Synonyms
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- 'attu (apheretic variant)
- jattu (semiconsonant variant)
- attu, iattu (eye dialect, non-orthographic)
Etymology
From the sonorization of Late Latin cattus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔat.tu/ (guttural pronunciation, mostly western)
- IPA(key): /ˈjat.tu/ (semiconsonant pronunciation, mostly eastern)
- Hyphenation: gàt‧tu
Noun
gattu m (plural gatti)
- A male cat.
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- Synonyms: gattuzzu, gattareḍḍu; see also Thesaurus:gattu
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).
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