Cate vs Cata - What's the difference?
cate | cata |
Cata has no English definition.
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
* 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
* 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
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)- Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
- 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?
- All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
- 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.