Katze
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#KATZECategory:German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#KATZECategory:German terms derived from Late Latin#KATZEInherited from Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#KATZECategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#KATZE katze, Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#KATZECategory:German terms derived from Old High German#KATZE kazza, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#KATZECategory:German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#KATZE *kattā. Akin to Old English catt (“cat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkatsə/Category:German 2-syllable words#KATZECategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#KATZE (most of Germany)
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑtːsə/ (Austro-Bavarian, Switzerland, regional Germany)Category:German 2-syllable words#KATZECategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#KATZE
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#KATZEAudio: (file)
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#KATZEAudio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#KATZEAudio (Austria); “die Katze”: (file) - Rhymes: -atsəCategory:Rhymes:German/atsə#KATZECategory:Rhymes:German/atsə/2 syllables#KATZE
- Hyphenation: Kat‧ze
Noun
Katze f (genitive Katze, plural Katzen, diminutive Kätzchen n or Kätzlein n, masculine männliche Katze or Kater, feminine weibliche Katze or Kätzin or Katerin)Category:German lemmas#KATZECategory:German nouns#KATZECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#KATZECategory:German feminine nouns#KATZECategory:Pages with entries#KATZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#KATZE
- house cat, Felis silvestris catus
- (specifically) female house cat
- cat (any member of the genus Felis)
- (astronomyCategory:de:Constellations#KATZE, historicalCategory:German terms with historical senses#KATZE) the obsolete constellation Felis
Usage notes
Katze is the common term to refer to a cat (both male and female ones). The derived form Kätzin is mostly restricted to poetic language and technical language.
Declension
Hyponyms
(any cat):
- Großkatze (“member of Pantherinae”)
- Kleinkatze
- Kater (“male cat”)
- Käterin (“female cat”) (Austrian, rare)
- Kätzin (“female cat”)
Derived terms
- Bengalkatze
- Borneo-Goldkatze
- Cheshire-Katze
- die Katze aus dem Sack lassen
- Eichkatze
- Fischkatze
- Flachkopfkatze
- Graukatze
- Grinsekatze
- Hauskatze
- Havana-Katze
- ist die Katze aus dem Haus, tanzen die Mäuse auf dem Tisch
- Katz-und-Maus-Spiel
- Katzenauge
- Katzenfreund
- Katzenfutter
- Katzengold
- katzenhaft
- Katzenjammer
- Katzenjunges
- Katzenklappe
- Katzenklo
- Katzenminze
- Katzenrasse
- Katzensprung
- Katzenstreu
- Katzentür
- Katzenwelpe
- Katzenzunge
- Kleinfleckkatze
- Langschwanzkatze
- Marmorkatze
- Meerkatze
- Naschkatze
- neunschwänzige Katze
- Pampaskatze
- Perserkatze
- Rohrkatze
- Rostkatze
- Sandkatze
- Schrödingers Katze
- Schwarzfußkatze
- Siamkatze
- Stinkkatze
- Tigerkatze
- Waldkatze
- Wildkatze
- Zibetkatze
Further reading
- “Katze” in Duden online
- “Katze”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German)
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Katze”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʰat͡sə/Category:Hunsrik 2-syllable words#KATZECategory:Hunsrik terms with IPA pronunciation#KATZE
- Rhymes: -atsəCategory:Rhymes:Hunsrik/atsə#KATZECategory:Rhymes:Hunsrik/atsə/2 syllables#KATZE
- Syllabification: Kat‧ze
Noun
Katze fCategory:Hunsrik non-lemma forms#KATZECategory:Hunsrik noun forms#KATZECategory:Hunsrik entries with incorrect language header#KATZECategory:Pages with entries#KATZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#KATZE
Pennsylvania German
Noun
KatzeCategory:Pennsylvania German non-lemma forms#KATZECategory:Pennsylvania German noun forms#KATZECategory:Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header#KATZECategory:Pages with entries#KATZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#KATZE