different between lath vs cath

English

Alternative forms

• lat, latt (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-Germanic *latt?, *laþþ? (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

lath (plural laths)

1. A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 21:

     Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.

   Synonym: lath strap

Holonyms

• lattice

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

lath (third-person singular simple present laths, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

1. to cover or line with laths

Anagrams

• halt, thal

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Noun

cath (plural caths)

1. Clipping of cathode.
2. Clipping of catheter.

Verb

cath (third-person singular simple present caths, present participle cathing, simple past and past participle cathed)

1. (medicine, transitive) To catheterize; to fit (someone) with a catheter.
   • 2004, Adrian Sandler, Living with Spina Bifida (page 160)

     At the spina bifida camp, we've had about twenty-five kids lining up outside the "Med Shed," needing to be cathed before breakfast.

   • 2010, Judith Rogers, The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

     Unlike Sharon, Sherry Adele was able to return to self-cathing after delivery.

Anagrams

• ACTH, CHAT, chat, tach

Cornish

Alternative forms

• kath

Noun

cath f (plural cathas or cathes)

1. (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form) cat

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cath, from Primitive Irish ????? (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kah/

Noun

cath m (genitive singular catha, nominative plural cathanna or catha)

1. battle

   Proverb:

   1. (literature) battle tale
2. conflict, trial
3. battalion

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• cafarr

Mutation

Further reading

• "cath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ????? (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

cath m (genitive catho or catha)

1. battle, fight
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 34^a20

     in chatho glosses proelii

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112^a5

     amal dunem-side nech iarna chúl hi cath

     behind him in battle

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 44^a1

     fon chath glosses sub Marte

2. troop, battalion

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cath, from Primitive Irish ????? (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kah/

Noun

cath m (genitive singular catha, plural cathan)

1. battle

   Synonym: blàr

Derived terms

• pic-catha

Mutation

Further reading

• “cath” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ka?, from Proto-Celtic *katt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??/

Noun

cath f (plural cathod or cathau)

1. cat; wildcat
2. cat, tipcat; cat-o'-nine-tails

Derived terms

• cathbysgod
• cath fach

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies