catta

Latin

Etymology

Typically thought to be related to cattus, in which case see that entry and cat for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkat.ta/, [ˈkät̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkat.ta/, [ˈkät̪ːä]

Noun

catta f (genitive cattae); first declension

1. a cat
   • Baruch 6:21 (Vulgate):

     supra corpus eorum et supra caput volant noctuae et hirundines et aves etiam similiter et cattae

     owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and cats [sit on them] in like manner

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catta	cattae
Genitive	cattae	cattārum
Dative	cattae	cattīs
Accusative	cattam	cattās
Ablative	cattā	cattīs
Vocative	catta	cattae

Related terms

• cattus m

Descendants

• Corsican: ghjatta
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: *catã
    • ⇒ Aromanian: cãtushi, cãtushe, cãtushã
  • Romanian: *cată
    • ⇒ Romanian: cătușă
• Emilian: gàta
• Franco-Provençal: chatta
• Italian: gatta
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: gata
• Old French: chate
  • Middle French: chatte
    • French: chatte
  • Walloon: cate, tchete
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: gata
  • Mirandese: gata
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: gata
• Old Galician-Portuguese: gata
  • Galician: gata
  • Portuguese: gata
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: gata
• Piedmontese: gata, ciata
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: gjate
  • Romansch: giatta
• Sicilian: jatta
• Venetian: gata
• → Byzantine Greek: κάττα (kátta)
  • Greek: γάτα (gáta)
• → Proto-Celtic: *kattā f
  • Proto-Brythonic: *kaθ
    • Breton: kazh, kaz
    • Cornish: kath, cath
    • Welsh: cath
• → Proto-Germanic: *kattō f
  • Old English: catte
    • Middle English: catte, katte
  • Old Frisian: katte
    • North Frisian: kaat, kåt
    • West Frisian: kat
  • Old Saxon: katta
    • Middle Low German: katte
      • Dutch Low Saxon: katte
      • German Low German: Katt, Katte

        Plautdietsch: Kautt, Kaut

  • Old Dutch: *katta
    • Middle Dutch: catte
      • Dutch: kat
        • Afrikaans: kat
          • → Xhosa: ikati
          • → Zulu: ikati
        • Jersey Dutch: kāt
        • Negerhollands: katje (from the Dutch diminutive)
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: kat
      • Limburgish: kat
      • West Flemish: katte
  • Old High German: *katta, kazza
    • Middle High German: katze
      • Alemannic German: Chatz, Chazz, Chats

        Alsatian: Kàtz

        Walser: chatza, chatzu, chatzò, chàzzà

      • Bavarian: ckozza, khoze, kòtze, Katz

        Cimbrian: katze, khatz, khatza

        Mòcheno: kòtz

      • Central Franconian:

        Hunsrik: Katz

      • German: Katze
      • Luxembourgish: Kaz
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Pennsylvania German: Katz

      • Yiddish: קאַץ (kats)
  • Old Norse: ketta
    • Icelandic: ketta
    • Faroese: ketta
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjette, kjetta
    • Norwegian Bokmål: kjette
    • Old Swedish: kætta
      • Swedish: katta

References

• “catta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catta 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)
• catta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• catta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Old Saxon

Noun

catta f

1. Alternative spelling of katta