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Kate vs Kage - What's the difference?

kate | kage |

As nouns the difference between kate and kage

is that kate is the brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla while kage is a chantry chapel enclosed with latticework or screenwork.

As a proper noun Kate

is a medieval pet form of Catherine and related names. Also used as a formal female given name.

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."

    kage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A chantry chapel enclosed with latticework or screenwork.
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