cat

Signification

Noun

1. An animal of the family Felidae:
2. An animal of the family Felidae:
3. An animal of the family Felidae
4. The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
5. A person:
6. A person:
7. (slang) A person:
8. (slang) A person:
9. A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
10. Short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
11. A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
12. The game of trap ball.
13. The game of trap ball.
14. The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
15. (slang) A vagina or vulva.
16. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
17. A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

Verb

1. To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
2. To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
3. (slang) To vomit.
4. To go wandering at night.
5. To gossip in a catty manner.

Verb

1. To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
2. (slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

Adj

Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kæt/

Étymologie

From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz. Further etymology is unclear.
Further etymology and cognates.
The Germanic word is generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial), from an Afroasiatic language. This would roughly match how domestic cats themselves spread, as genetic studies suggest they began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic (being in Cyprus by 9500 years ago, and Greece and Italy by 2500 years ago), especially after they became popular in Egypt. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) [script needed] (kaddîska) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (kadīs, “kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates, but M. Lionel Bender says the Nubian word is a loan from Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa). Jean-Paul Savignac suggests the Latin word is from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic ϣⲁⲩ (šau, “tomcat”) suffixed with feminine -t, but John Huehnergard says "the source … was clearly not Egyptian itself, where no analogous form is attested."
It may be a Wanderwort. Kroonen says the word must have existed in Germanic from a very early date, as it shows morphological alternations, and suggests that it might have been borrowed from Uralic, compare Northern Sami gađfe (“female stoat”) and Hungarian hölgy (“stoat; lady, bride”) from Proto-Uralic *käďwä (“female (of a fur animal)”).
Related to Scots cat, West Frisian kat, North Frisian kåt and kaat, Dutch kat, Danish kat, Norwegian katt, Swedish katt, German Low German Katt and Katte, German Katze, Alemannic German Chatz, Icelandic köttur, Afrikaans kat, Latin cattus, French chat, Norman cat, Occitan cat, Portuguese gato, Spanish gato, Aromanian cãtush, Scottish Gaelic cat, Irish cat, Breton kazh, Welsh cath, Cornish kath, as well as Ancient Greek κάττα (kátta), Greek γάτα (gáta), Turkish kedi, and from the same ultimate source Russian кот (kot), Ukrainian кіт (kit), Belarusian кот (kot), Polish kot, Kashubian kòt, Lithuanian katė, and more distantly Armenian կատու (katu), Basque katu, Arabic قِطَّة (qiṭṭa) alongside dialectal Maghrebi Arabic قَطُّوس (qaṭṭūs) (from Berber, probably from Latin).

Phrases

However , the cat is very rare now even in the national park .

Cependant, le chat est très rare maintenant même dans le parc national.