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Cate vs Cata - What's the difference?

cate | cata |

Cata is often a misspelling of cate.


Cata has no English definition.

As a noun cate

is a delicacy or item of food.

As a proper noun Cate

is a diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

cate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
  • Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
  • * 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
  • Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
  • All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
  • * 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
  • He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.
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    cata

    Not English

    Cata has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'cata':

    cute, code, coda, cede, chide, cite, chute, chode, cutie, cate, cote, choda, cade, citie, cytee, cete, cyte, chate, cadie, cttee