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English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: k?t, IPA^(key): /kæt/, [k?æt], [k?æt?]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kat/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophones: Kat, khat, qat

Etymology 1

From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Alternative forms

• catte (obsolete)

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. An animal of the family Felidae:

   Synonym: felid

   1. A domesticated species (Felis catus) or subspecies (Felis silvestris catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8^thc.]

      • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

      Synonyms: puss, pussy, malkin, kitty, pussy-cat, grimalkin; see also Thesaurus:cat

   2. Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, etc.
      • 1985 January, George Laycock, "Our American Lion", in Boy Scouts of America, Boys' Life, 28.

        If you should someday round a corner on the hiking trail and come face to face with a mountain lion, you would probably never forget the mighty cat.
2. A person:
   1. (offensive) A spiteful or angry woman. [from early 13^thc.]
      • 1835 September, anonymous, "The Pigs", in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 9, 156.

        But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.

      Synonym: bitch

   2. An enthusiast or player of jazz.
   3. (slang) A person (usually male).
      • 1973 December, "Books Noted", discussing A Dialogue (by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni), in Black World, Johnson Publishing Company, 77.

        BALDWIN: That's what we were talking about before. And by the way, you did not have to tell me that you think your father is a groovy cat; I knew that.

      Synonyms: bloke, chap, cove, dude, fellow, fella, guy

   4. (slang) A prostitute. [from at least early 15^thc.]
3. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
4. (chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
5. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
6. (archaic, uncountable) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
   1. The trap of the game of "trap and ball".
7. (archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat.
8. (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
9. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
10. (historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.

    Synonyms: tortoise, Welsh cat

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:cat, Thesaurus:man.

• (any member of the suborder (sometimes superfamily) Feliformia or Feloidea): feliform ("cat-like" carnivoran), feloid (compare Caniformia, Canoidea)
• (any member of the subfamily Felinae, genera Puma, Acinonyx, Lynx, Leopardus, and Felis)): feline cat, a feline
• (any member of the subfamily Pantherinae, genera Panthera, Uncia and Neofelis): pantherine cat, a pantherine
• (technically, all members of the genus Panthera): panther (i.e. tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard), (narrow sense) panther (i.e. black panther)
• (any member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae, genera Smilodon, Homotherium, Miomachairodus, etc.): Smilodontini, Machairodontini (Homotherini), Metailurini, "saber-toothed cat" (saber-tooth)

Hyponyms

• (domestic species): housecat, malkin, kitten, mouser, tomcat

Derived terms

Translations

See cat/translations § Noun.

Verb

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

1. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 226:

     The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht …

2. (nautical, transitive) 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.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of catamaran.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of catenate.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

Verb

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

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

Etymology 4

Possibly a shortened form of catastrophic.

Adjective

cat (not comparable)

1. (Ireland, informal) Terrible, disastrous.

Usage notes

This usage is common in speech but rarely appears in writing.

Etymology 5

Shortened from methcathinone.

Noun

cat (uncountable)

1. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.

Etymology 6

Shortened from catapult.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. (military, naval) A catapult.

Etymology 7

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of category.

Etymology 8

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. Abbreviation of catfish.
   • 1916, M. Shults, "Fishing for Yellow Cat in the Brazos", in Field and Stream, vol. 21, 478.

     Fishing for cat is probably, up to a certain stage, the least exciting of all similar sports.

Etymology 9

Abbreviation of caterpillar.

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
2. A caterpillar drive vehicle (a ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks), especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.

References

Anagrams

• A. C. T., A.C.T., ACT, ATC, Act., CTA, TAC, TCA, act, act., tac

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cat, from Min Nan ? (chhat), from Middle Chinese ? (tsit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??at?]
• Hyphenation: cat

Noun

cat (first-person possessive catku, second-person possessive catmu, third-person possessive catnya)

1. paint (substance)

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “cat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• cut (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish catt, from Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /k?t??/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kat??/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /k?t??/ (as if spelled cut)

Noun

cat m (genitive singular cait, nominative plural cait)

1. cat (domestic feline; member of the Felidae)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "cat" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “cat” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 121.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “catt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “cat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (chhat), from Middle Chinese ? (tsit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??at/
• Rhymes: -t??at, -at

Noun

cat (Jawi spelling ???, informal 1st possessive catku, impolite 2nd possessive catmu, 3rd possessive catnya)

1. paint (substance)

Affixed terms

• bercat
• mengecat (active): to paint
  • dicat (passive): to be painted
• catan: painting (an artwork in the form of a painted picture)
• pengecatan: the action of applying paint to something (e.g. a surface, etc.)
• pengecat: painter (a person whose job is paining buildings)

Further reading

• “cat” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• catte

Etymology

From Old English catt, catte; this is in turn from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/

Noun

cat (plural cats)

1. cat (feline)

Synonyms

• badde

Descendants

• English: cat
• Scots: cat
• Yola: kaudès (plural)

References

• “cat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French cat (variant of Old French chat) from Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka/

Noun

cat m (plural cats, feminine catte)

1. cat
   • c. 1830, George Métivier, ‘Lamentations de Damaris’:

     Où'est donc qu'j'iron, mé et mes puches / Ma catte, et l'reste de l'écu?

   • 2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘D'la gâche de Guernési’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, page 20:

     Ils d'visirent pour enne haeure, mais la Louise était pas chagrinaïe au tour sa pâte, pasqué a savait que le cat était à gardaïr la pâte caoude. (They talked for an hour, but Louise was not worried about her dough, because she knew that the cat was keeping the dough warm.)

2. (Jersey) common dab (Limanda limanda)

Derived terms

• catchiéthe (“cat-flap”)

Old French

Noun

cat m (oblique plural caz or catz, nominative singular caz or catz, nominative plural cat)

1. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of chat

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (kat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

cat n (plural caturi)

1. (dated) floor (storey)
   • 1892, Barbu ?tef?nescu Delavrancea, Mr. Vucea:

     Mi-aduc bine aminte c? unul s?rea de la al cincilea cat, ?i c-o mân? î?i ?inea p?l?ria. Grozav îi era de p?l?rie!

     I remember well that one was jumping from the fifth floor, and was holding his hat with one hand. That proud was he of the hat!

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish catt, borrowed from Late Latin cattus. Cognates include Irish cat and Manx kayt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?t?/

Noun

cat m (genitive singular cait, plural cait)

1. cat (Felis catus)

Declension

Derived terms

• clòimh-chat

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English d?l (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English d?l (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (t?)sl?fan (“to split”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• (General American) enPR: pärt, IPA^(key): /p??t/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /p??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

part (plural parts)

1. A portion; a component.
   1. A fraction of a whole.
   2. A distinct element of something larger.
   3. A group inside a larger group.
   4. Share, especially of a profit.

   5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

   6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
   7. A section of a document.

   8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
   9. (mathematics, dated) A factor.

   10. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
2. Duty; responsibility.
   1. Position or role (especially in a play).
   2. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

   3. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
      • He that is not against us is on our part.

      • 1650, Edmund Waller, to my Lady Morton (epistle)

        Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.

3. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

4. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds.
5. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     men of considerable parts

Synonyms

• (action of a whole): piece, portion, component, element
• (group within a larger group): faction, party
• (position or role): position, role
• (hair dividing line): parting (UK), shed, shoad/shode
• (Hebrew calendar unit): chelek
• See also Thesaurus:part

Hyponyms

• car part
• spare part

Holonyms

• whole

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (p?to)

Translations

Verb

part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

1. (intransitive) To leave the company of.
   • 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate

     It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

   • 1841, Andrew Reed, The is an Hour when I must Part [1]

     There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear

   • 1860, George Eliot, Recollections of Italy

     his precious bag, which he would by no means part from

2. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
3. (transitive) To divide in two.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

     I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.

4. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.

5. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:

     He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.

   • They parted my raiment among them.
6. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

   • They shall part alike.

7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
   • While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

   • "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."

8. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

   • The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.

10. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
11. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
    • 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)

      He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!" […] so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do […] maybe talk […] so we did […] since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

Derived terms

• part ways
• part with

Translations

Adjective

part (not comparable)

1. Fractional; partial.

   Fred was part owner of the car.

Translations

Adverb

part (not comparable)

1. Partly; partially; fractionally.

Derived terms

• part-finance
• take part

Translations

References

• part on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• part at OneLook Dictionary Search
• part in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• part in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• TRAP, patr-, prat, rapt, rtPA, tarp, trap

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?part/
• (Central, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?par/
• (Alghero) IPA^(key): /?pa?t/

Etymology 1

From Latin partus.

Noun

part m (plural parts)

1. birthing (act of giving birth)

   Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament

2. (figuratively) birth of an idea

Related terms

• parir

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

Noun

part f (plural parts)

1. part, portion

Derived terms

• a part
• a part de

Related terms

• parcial
• partir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).

Adjective

part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)

1. Parthian

Noun

part m (plural parts, feminine parta)

1. Parthian

Related terms

• Pàrtia

Further reading

• “part” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “part” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Latin pars

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?part]
• Rhymes: -art

Noun

part m

1. part (the melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece)

Related terms

Further reading

• part in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• part in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Noun

part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)

1. part

Estonian

Etymology

Onomatopoetic. Cognate to Votic partti. Probably the same root as in parisema (“to thud with pauses”).

Noun

part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)

1. duck

Declension

Faroese

Noun

part m

1. participle accusative singular of partur

   fyri ein part - partial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?/

Etymology 1

From Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

Noun

part f (plural parts)

1. share

2. portion, part, slice

3. proportion

Synonyms

• partie

Derived terms

Related terms

• partage
• partager
• partir

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

Verb

part

1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

Etymology 3

From Latin partus.

Noun

part m (plural parts)

1. newborn

Further reading

• “part” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin pars, partem.

Noun

part f (plural parts)

1. part

Related terms

• partî

Etymology 2

From Latin partus.

Noun

part m (plural parts)

1. delivery, birth, childbirth

See also

• nassince

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, from Latin portus. Compare Italian porto (“port, harbour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rt]
• Hyphenation: part
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

part (plural partok)

1. shore, coast, bank, beach

Declension

Derived terms

• parti
• parttalan

References

Further reading

• part in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

part

1. indefinite accusative singular of partur

Ladin

Alternative forms

• pert

Etymology

From Latin pars, partem.

Noun

part f (plural part)

1. part

Related terms

• partir
• spartir

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parde, paart, parte, perte

Etymology

From Old French part and Old English part, both from Latin partem, accusative singular of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

Noun

part (plural partes)

1. part

Descendants

• English: part
• Scots: pairt

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

part c

1. part, piece
2. party (law: person), stakeholder

Declension

Related terms

• partiell
• partisk
• partition

Anagrams

• prat

Veps

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian ????? (parta).

Noun

part

1. bench