cata

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

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cata

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

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Fijian

Verb

cata

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

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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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑt̪ˠə]
• IPA^(key): [ˈkat̪ˠə]
• IPA^(key): [ˈkʊt̪ˠə]

Noun

cata m pl

1. vocative plural of cat

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κατά (katá)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/, [ˈkät̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/, [ˈkäːt̪ä]

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: قاذة (káda)
• Occitan: cada
• Portuguese: cada
• Romanian: câte
• Spanish: cada

Etymology 2

Inflected form of catus

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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.

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Portuguese

Verb

cata

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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.