cata

See also: catá, catà, câtă, cață, cata-, and Ca-ta

Asturian

Verb

cata

1. third-person singular present indicative of catar
2. second-person singular imperative of catar

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French

Etymology

Clipping of catastrophe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta/

Noun

cata f (plural catas)

1. (informal) disaster

Further reading

• “cata” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Noun

cātā̀ f (possessed form cātàr̃)

1. charter

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Interlingua

Determiner

cata

1. (quantifying) each, every

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Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [ˈkɑt̪ˠə]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈkat̪ˠə]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊt̪ˠə]

Noun

cata m pl

1. vocative plural of cat

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cata	chata	gcata
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κατά (katá)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/

Preposition

cata

1. by (in the distributive sense)

Descendants

• Aragonese: cada
• Asturian: cada
• Catalan: cada
• Corsican: caa
• Extremaduran: cá, ca
• French: chaque (in part)
• Galician: cada
• Leonese: ca
• Mirandese: cada
• Mozarabic: káta
• Occitan: cada
• Portuguese: cada
• Romanian: câte
• Spanish: cada

Etymology 2

Inflected form of catus

Adjective

cata

1. nominative feminine singular of catus
2. nominative neuter plural of catus
3. accusative neuter plural of catus
4. vocative feminine singular of catus
5. vocative neuter plural of catus

catā

1. ablative feminine singular of catus

References

• cata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Verb

cata

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of catar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of catar

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Shortened from Catalina, a nickname given to this bird.

Noun

cata f (plural catas)

1. (Bolivia, Chile) budgerigar

Synonyms

• periquito, cata australiana

See also

• cotorra
• perico

Etymology 2

From the verb catar

Noun

cata f (plural catas)

1. tasting

   cata de vinos - winetasting

2. bite, sample

Verb

cata

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of catar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of catar.