Catania
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian Catania.
Proper noun
[edit]Catania (countable and uncountable, plural Catanias)
- A metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy.
- The capital city of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
- A habitational surname from Italian.
Translations
[edit]province of Sicily
capital of Catania
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Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Catania is the 9527th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3412 individuals. Catania is most common among White (92.47%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Catania”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 303.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named by the indigenous Sicel people; from Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”) (compare Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē)).[1] The name was adopted by Greek settlers, survived Hellenization and passed into Roman rule.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Catania f
- Catania (a metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy)
- Catania (the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy)
Proper noun
[edit]Catania m or f by sense
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Various authors (1987), Enciclopedia di Catania, Tringale
Sicilian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Catania f
- Catania (a metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy)
- Catania (the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy)
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- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Metropolitan cities of Italy
- en:Places in Sicily
- en:Places in Italy
- en:Cities in Sicily
- en:Cities in Italy
- en:Capital cities
- English surnames
- English surnames from Italian
- Italian terms derived from Sicel
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Italian/anja
- Rhymes:Italian/anja/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Metropolitan cities of Italy
- it:Places in Sicily
- it:Places in Italy
- it:Cities in Sicily
- it:Cities in Italy
- it:Capital cities
- Italian proper nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Italian surnames
- Sicilian lemmas
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- scn:Metropolitan cities of Italy
- scn:Places in Sicily
- scn:Places in Italy
- scn:Cities in Sicily
- scn:Cities in Italy
- scn:Capital cities