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Kate vs Cate - What's the difference?

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As proper nouns the difference between kate and cate

is that kate is a medieval pet form of Catherine and related names. Also used as a formal female given name while Cate is a diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

As nouns the difference between kate and cate

is that kate is the brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla while cate is a delicacy or item of food.

kate

English

(wikipedia Kate)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A medieval pet form of Catherine and related names. Also used as a formal female given name.
  • * ~~1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew : Act II, Scene I:
    • Petruchio .Good morrow, Kate ; for that's your name, I hear.
    Katharina .Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: / They call me Katharine that do talk of me.
    Petruchio''.You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate''', / And bonny '''Kate''', and sometimes ' Kate the curst;
  • * 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
    • A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. - - - A clergyman in my neighbourhood used to mistake the sound, and christen the babies Catharine; - a wise error, for Kate is a noble abbreviation.
  • * 1944 A.J.Cronin: The Green Years .Little, Brown, and Company, 1944. page 62:
    • "And I have such a horrible name. Think of it... Kate . Who would take Kate on a Moonlight Cruise...or out to the Minstrels at the point. If you ever do find me in the company of a strange young man, call me Irene. Promise me."

    Anagrams

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    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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