cattus

cattus uit.-lat. Katze

Unknown; possibly a Wanderwort, compare Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”), or perhaps borrowed from a Nilo-Saharan or Afroasiatic language, compare Nubian kadī (“cat”), Arabic قِطّ (qiṭṭ, “cat, tomcat”), Classical Syriac ܩܛܘ (qaṭṭu, “cat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkat.tus/, [ˈkät̪ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkat.tus/, [ˈkät̪ːus]

Noun

cattus m (genitive cattī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) a cat [ quotations ▼]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cattus	cattī
Genitive	cattī	cattōrum
Dative	cattō	cattīs
Accusative	cattum	cattōs
Ablative	cattō	cattīs
Vocative	catte	cattī

Synonyms

• fēlēs, mūsiō, mūriceps, mūrilegus, pilāx, mūscipula

Related terms

• catta f