cata

See also: catá, catà, catã, cața, Cața, cață, Cață, căta, câtă, cata-, and Ca-ta

Asturian

Verb

cata

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

---

Fijian

Verb

cata

1. to hate, loathe, detest
2. to dislike

---

French

Etymology

Clipping of catastrophe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cata f (plural catas)

1. (informal) disaster

Further reading

• “cata”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

---

Galician

Etymology 1

Back-formation from catar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtɐ]

Noun

cata m (plural catas)

1. search; hunt
2. tasting

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtɐ]

Verb

cata

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) present indicative of catar
2. Second-person singular (ti) affirmative imperative of catar

Interjection

cata

1. (dated) watch out, look, beware
   • 1594, Anonymous, Entremés dos pastores:

     Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes.

     Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are loosing the soul

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce

     como habes doito, é catá,

     que si así no no fazèdes,

     me escatìmo, évelo hàs.

     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!

     como estas cousas se fàn,

     è madia tendes, senon

     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet

     As you use to, but beware,

     if you don't do it like that

     I'll take offence, you'll see.

     You know well, it could not be otherwise,

     how these things are done,

     no doubt about it, or else

     I'll get angry

   • 2005, Hixinio Puentes, Aguillóns do Ortegal, page 271:

     Eu apureime a meter unha tallada de roscón na boca para non ter que brindar con eles por unha causa que se me facía odiosa. Máis dun botoume unha ollada de esguello pero disimulei facendome o distraído. ¡Cata que xa as pagaredes todas xuntas!

     I hurried to put a serving of cake in my mouth, so I don't have to toast with them for a cause that was hateful to me. More than one gazed at me askance, but I dissembled playing the distracted one. Take care, you'll pay them all together!

   Synonym: catá

References

• “cata” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cata” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

---

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃáː.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃáː.tàː]

Noun

cātā̀ f (possessed form cātàr̃)

1. charter

---

Interlingua

Determiner

cata

1. (quantifying) each, every

---

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.

---

Latin

Pronunciation

• cata: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/, [ˈkät̪ä]
• cata: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/, [ˈkäːt̪ä]
• catā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.taː/, [ˈkät̪äː]
• catā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/, [ˈkäːt̪ä]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κατά (katá).

Preposition

cata (+ accusative) (Late Latin)

1. by (in the distributive sense)
2. according to

   Synonym: secundum

   • c. 4th century (copied 9th century), Codex Gatianus (VL 30), folio 52^r:

     Euangeliu[m] cata Lucam

     The Gospel according to Luke

3. among, near

Descendants

• Aragonese: cada
• Aromanian: cãte
• Asturian: cada
• Catalan: cada
• Corsican: caa
• Extremaduran: cá, ca
• Old Francoprovençal: cha
  • Franco-Provençal: cha
• Old French: cha, chascun
  • French: cha (dialectal), chacun, chaque
• Galician: cada
• Italian: cadauno
• Leonese: ca
• Mirandese: cada
• Occitan: cada
• Portuguese: cada
• Romanian: câte
• Spanish: cada

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cata

1. inflection of catus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Souter, Alexander (1949), “cata”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 41–42

---

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧ta

Etymology 1

Deverbal from catar.

Noun

cata f (plural catas)

1. search

   Synonyms: pesquisa, busca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cata

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

Further reading

• “cata” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “cata” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “cata” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cata” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “cata” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cata” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

---

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkata/ [ˈka.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: ca‧ta

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cata

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

Further reading

• “cata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014