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catte

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English

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Noun

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catte (plural cattes)

  1. Archaic spelling of cat

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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catte

  1. vocative singular of cattus

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

Noun

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catte f

  1. cat

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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  • 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

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin catta.

Noun

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catte f (plural cattes)

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

Old English

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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catte f

  1. a female cat

Declension

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Weak:

singular plural
nominative catte cattan
accusative cattan cattan
genitive cattan cattena
dative cattan cattum

Descendants

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