κάττα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- κάτα (káta) (medieval)
Etymology
[edit]Per Babiniotis, borrowed into Koiné Greek from Late Latin catta (“female cat”); see there for further information.[1]
Per Beekes, of unknown ultimate origin, but related to the Latin counterpart as well as cognates in various other European languages.[2]
Replaced αἴλουρος (aílouros) in later usage.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkat.ta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkat.ta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ta/
Noun
[edit]κάττα • (kátta) f (genitive κάττης); first declension (Koine, Byzantine)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́ττᾰ hē kátta |
τὼ κᾰ́ττᾱ tṑ káttā |
αἱ κᾰ́τται hai káttai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰ́ττης tês káttēs |
τοῖν κᾰ́τταιν toîn káttain |
τῶν κᾰττῶν tôn kattôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰ́ττῃ têi káttēi |
τοῖν κᾰ́τταιν toîn káttain |
ταῖς κᾰ́τταις taîs káttais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́ττᾰν tḕn káttan |
τὼ κᾰ́ττᾱ tṑ káttā |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́ττᾱς tā̀s káttās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ττᾰ kátta |
κᾰ́ττᾱ káttā |
κᾰ́τται káttai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
[edit]- κάττος (káttos) (the masculine equivalent)
Descendants
[edit]- Mariupol Greek: ка́та (káta)
References
[edit]- ^ lemma "γάτα' - κάττα - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάττα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 657
Further reading
[edit]- “κάττα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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