Katze
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German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German katze, Old High German kazza, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus. Akin to Old English catt (“cat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈkatsə/ (most of Germany)
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑtːsə/ (Austro-Bavarian, Switzerland, regional Germany)
Audio (file) Audio (file) Audio (Austria) (file) - Rhymes: -atsə
- Hyphenation: Kat‧ze
Noun[edit]
Katze f (genitive Katze, plural Katzen, diminutive Kätzchen n or Kätzlein n, masculine männliche Katze or Kater, feminine weibliche Katze or Kätzin or Katerin)
- house cat, Felis silvestris catus
- Synonym: Hauskatze
- (specifically) female house cat
- Synonym: (uncommon) Kätzin
- cat (any member of the genus Felis)
- (astronomy, historical) the obsolete constellation Felis
Usage notes[edit]
Katze is the common term to refer to a cat (both male and female ones). The derived form Kätzin is mostly restricted to poetic language and technical language.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Katze [feminine]
Antonyms[edit]
(female cat):
- Kater (“male cat”)
Hypernyms[edit]
(cat):
Hyponyms[edit]
(any cat):
- Großkatze (“member of Pantherinae”)
- Kleinkatze
- Kater (“male cat”)
- Käterin (“female cat”) (Austrian, rare)
- Kätzin (“female cat”)
Derived terms[edit]
- Bengalkatze
- Borneo-Goldkatze
- Cheshire-Katze
- die Katze aus dem Sack lassen
- Eichkatze
- Fischkatze
- Flachkopfkatze
- Graukatze
- Grinsekatze
- Hauskatze
- Havana-Katze
- ist die Katze aus dem Haus, tanzen die Mäuse auf dem Tisch
- Katz-und-Maus-Spiel
- Katzenauge
- Katzenfreund
- Katzenfutter
- Katzengold
- katzenhaft
- Katzenjammer
- Katzenjunges
- Katzenklappe
- Katzenklo
- Katzenminze
- Katzenrasse
- Katzensprung
- Katzenstreu
- Katzentür
- Katzenwelpe
- Katzenzunge
- Kleinfleckkatze
- Langschwanzkatze
- Marmorkatze
- Meerkatze
- Naschkatze
- neunschwänzige Katze
- Pampaskatze
- Perserkatze
- Rohrkatze
- Rostkatze
- Sandkatze
- Schrödingers Katze
- Schwarzfußkatze
- Siamkatze
- Stinkkatze
- Waldkatze
- Wildkatze
Further reading[edit]
- “Katze” in Duden online
- “Katze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Katze”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Hunsrik[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Katze f
Pennsylvania German[edit]
Noun[edit]
Katze
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