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cater
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of acatour (“acater”), from Old French acater (“to buy, to purchase”). Equivalent to cate +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ke?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ke?d?/, /?ke?t?/, [?k?e????]
- Rhymes: -e?t?(r)
Verb
cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)
- To provide, particularly:
- a. 1635, Thomas Randolph, Poems, p. 4:
- Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.
- (transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Sc. iii, ll. 45 ff.:
- He that doth the Rauens feede,
Yea prouidently caters for the Sparrow.
- He that doth the Rauens feede,
- I catered for her bat mitzvah.
- His company catered our wedding.
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Sc. iii, ll. 45 ff.:
- (intransitive, figuratively, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Paris Sketch Book, Vol. II, p. 16:
- Art... was... catering to the national taste and vanity.
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Paris Sketch Book, Vol. II, p. 16:
- a. 1635, Thomas Randolph, Poems, p. 4:
Derived terms
- caterer
Translations
Noun
cater (plural caters)
- (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
- c. 1400, "Gamelyn", ll. 321 ff.:
- I am oure Catour and bere oure Alther purse.
- 1512, Account Book of the Hospital of St. John, Canterbury (1510–1556):
- Rec. for iij calvys off þe cater of Crystis Cherche.
- c. 1400, "Gamelyn", ll. 321 ff.:
- (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
- c. 1430, John Lydgate translating Giovanni Boccaccio as The Fall of Princes, Bk. VII, Ch. x, l. 161:
- Of his diete catour was scarsite...
- c. 1430, John Lydgate translating Giovanni Boccaccio as The Fall of Princes, Bk. VII, Ch. x, l. 161:
- (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, p. 28:
- The eye is loues Cator.
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, p. 28:
Alternative forms
- catour, cator, kater, chator (obsolete)
Etymology 2
Probably ultimately from French quatre (“four”), possibly via cater (“change-ringing”), although Liberman argues for a derivation from a North Germanic prefix meaning "crooked, angled, clumsy" from which he also derives cater-cousin and, via Norse, Old Irish cittach (“left-handed, awkward”). He finds this more likely than extension of the dice and change-ringing term cater as an adverb, given the likely cognates in other Germanic languages. Caterpillar and caterwaul are unrelated, being derived from cognates to cat, but may have influenced the pronunciation of Liberman's proposed earlier *cate- or undergone similar sound changes.
Verb
cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)
- (Britain dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
- 1577, Barnaby Googe transl. Conrad Heresbach as Foure Bookes of Husbandry, Bk. II, fol. 69v:
- The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel.
- 1873, Silverland, p. 129:
- ‘Cater’ across the rails ever so cleverly, you cannot escape jolt and jar.
- 1577, Barnaby Googe transl. Conrad Heresbach as Foure Bookes of Husbandry, Bk. II, fol. 69v:
Adverb
cater (not comparable)
- (Britain dialect, US) Diagonally.
- 1881, Sebastian Evans, Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, s.v. "Cater and Cater-cornered":
- Cater and Cater-cornered, diagonal; diagonally. To ‘cut cater’ in the case of velvet, cloth, etc., is... ‘cut on the cross’. Cater-snozzle, to make an angle; to ‘mitre’.
- 1881, Sebastian Evans, Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, s.v. "Cater and Cater-cornered":
Derived terms
- cater-corner, catercross, cater-snozzle, caterways, caterwise, cut cater
Etymology 3
From French quatre (“four”). Doublet of cuatro.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ke?t?/, /?kat?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ke?t??/
Noun
cater (plural caters)
- (rare, obsolete) Four.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique..., p. 86:
- The auditour... cometh in with sise sould, and cater denere, for vi.s. and iiii.d.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique..., p. 86:
- (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
- 1519, William Horman, Vulgaria, fol. 280v:
- Cater is a very good caste.
- 1519, William Horman, Vulgaria, fol. 280v:
- (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
- 1872, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, The Bells of Church, p. 29:
- The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging... caters, cinques, etc.
- 1878, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. "Cater":
- Cater... The name given by change ringers to changes of nine bells. The word should probably be written quaters, as it is meant to denote the fact that four couples of bells change their places in the order of ringing.
- 1872, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, The Bells of Church, p. 29:
Alternative forms
- catre, quatre
Derived terms
- cater-point, cater-trey
Related terms
- ace, deuce, trey, cinque, sice
Translations
References
- “† 'cater, n¹.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889
- “cater, n²., adv., v¹., and v².”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1889
- “cater”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- cater in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- "Kitty-corner" in Anatoly Liberman's Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ?ISBN, pp. 133–135.
Anagrams
- Carte, Trace, acter, caret, carte, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin quattuor.
Adjective
cater
- four
Noun
cater m (uncountable)
- four
Middle Dutch
Etymology
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Noun
c?ter m
- tomcat
Inflection
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Descendants
- Dutch: kater
- Limburgish: kater
Further reading
- “cater”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “cater (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
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oater
English
Etymology
oat +? -er (“Variety -er”). ~1945-50, alluding to the fodder for horses, which are common in the movies.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?.t?/
- Rhymes: -??t?(?)
Homophone: odor (some dialects)
Noun
oater (plural oaters)
- (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
- 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera, in Life,
- In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. In essence it is the American morality play. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of Yellow Sky. This is a $1,450,000 western with big-name stars (Gregory Peck, Anne Bancroft, Richard Widmark) and technical talent from 20th Century's top drawer, but is basically a typical oater.
- 1995, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion,
- By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and perhaps a bouncing-ball sing-along. There were, to be sure, degrees of the oater; a somewhat more subtle version, designed for adult as well as child viewing, was also made.
- 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera, in Life,
Synonyms
- horse opera, oat opera
See also
- soap opera
- sudser
Anagrams
- Erato, orate
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