different between ratel vs catel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans ratel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?t?l/, /????t?l/

Noun

ratel (plural ratels)

1. A carnivorous mammal, Mellivora capensis, found in Africa and some parts of Asia; the honey badger.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, taler, telar

Afrikaans

Etymology

A shortening of Dutch rateldas, formed (in South Africa) from (dialectal) ratel (“honeycomb”) +? das (“badger”).

Noun

ratel (plural ratels)

1. honey badger
2. badger

   Synonym: das

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.t?l/
• Hyphenation: ra?tel
• Rhymes: -a?t?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ratele.

Noun

ratel f or m (plural ratels, diminutive rateltje n)

1. (music) ratchet, rattle
2. ratchet (tool or mechanism)
3. socket wrench
4. rattle (organ for making noise, such as a rattlesnake's)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch ratele, a compound of râte (“honeycomb”) and -ele. The suffix is ultimately from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (agent/instrumental/diminutive suffix), and râte (now raat) is ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hr?tu (“honeycomb”), which is probably inherited from Proto-Germanic *hr?t?-.

Noun

ratel f (plural ratels, diminutive rateltje n)

2. (Belgium) honeycomb
   • 1895, De Mandelbie, vol. 1, issue 6, page 86.

     Zij zullen meêdoogenloos uitgeplunterd worden ; zelfs de ratels zullen hunne vraatzucht niet ontgaan, zooals gij verder zult zien.

   • 1971, Vlaams Imkersblad, page 227.

     Honig diende tot voeding en werd als offer in de godsdienstige plechtigheden aangeboden. De oude Kelten, over drie duizend jaren, boden de landelijke godheden een ratel (raat) zeem aan om de zegening der veldvruchten te bekomen.

3. (uncommon, chiefly South Africa) ratel [from 18th c.]

   Synonym: honingdas

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ratel

1. first-person singular present indicative of ratelen
2. imperative of ratelen

Anagrams

• alert, later

Portuguese

Noun

ratel m (plural ratéis)

1. honey badger (Mellivora capensis, a mustelid of Africa, Arabia and India)

Spanish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?tel/, [ra?t?el]

Noun

ratel m (plural rateles)

1. honey badger

   Synonym: tejón de miel

Middle English

Etymology

See Modern English chattel.

Noun

catel

1. Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 541-2.

     Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,

     Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.

Old French

Noun

catel m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)

1. (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel