catte

catte (plural cattes)

1. Archaic spelling of cat.

• tacet, tecta

catte

1. vocative singular of cattus

From Old Dutch *katta, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā, from Proto-Germanic *kattǭ.

catte f

1. cat

• 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

• “catte”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “catte”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Latin catta.

catte f (plural cattes)

1. female equivalent of cat
2. (Jersey) tiger moth caterpillar
3. (Jersey) worm for bait

From Proto-Germanic *kattǭ. Cognate with Old Frisian katte, Old Saxon katta, Middle Dutch katte (Dutch kat), Old High German kazza (German Katze), Old Norse ketta (Swedish katta). The word existed in the Germanic languages in a masculine gender also, represented in Old English by catt. The word appears to be related to Late Latin cattus as well as to similar words in the Slavic and Celtic languages, but the ultimate source is uncertain. See cat for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt.te/

catte f

1. a female cat

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• Middle English: catte, katte