cath

Clippings.

cath (plural caths)

1. Clipping of cathode.
2. (medicine) Clipping of catheter.
3. (drug slang) Clipping of cathinone.
4. Clipping of Catholic.

cath (third-person singular simple present caths, present participle cathing, simple past and past participle cathed)

1. (medicine, transitive) To catheterize; to fit (someone) with a catheter.
   • 2004, Adrian Sandler, Living with Spina Bifida, page 160:

     At the spina bifida camp, we've had about twenty-five kids lining up outside the "Med Shed," needing to be cathed before breakfast.

   • 2010, Judith Rogers, The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth:

     Unlike Sharon, Sherry Adele was able to return to self-cathing after delivery.

• ACTH, CHAT, chat, tach

• kath

cath f (plural cathas or cathes)

1. (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form) cat

From Old Irish cath,^[1] from Primitive Irish ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kɑh/^[2]

cath m (genitive singular catha, nominative plural cathanna or catha)

1. battle

   Ní hé lá an chatha lá an chnuasaithe. (proverb)

   A stitch in time saves nine.

   (literally, “The day of battle is not the day for gathering food.”)

   1. (literature) battle tale
2. conflict, trial
3. battalion

• cafarr

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Primitive Irish ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).

• IPA^(key): /kaθ/

cath m (genitive catho or catha)

1. battle, fight
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 34^a20

     in chatho [translating proelii]

     of the battle

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112^a5

     amal du·n‑em-side nech íarna chúl hi cath

     as he protects someone behind him in battle

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 44^a1

     fon chath [translating sub Marte]

     under the battle

2. troop, battalion

• Irish: cath
• Manx: cah
• Scottish Gaelic: cath
• ⇒ Middle Irish: cathaigecht (“warfare”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish cath, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).

• IPA^(key): /kah/

cath m (genitive singular catha, plural cathan)

1. battle

   Synonym: blàr

• pic-catha

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cath”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

 

From Proto-Brythonic *kaθ, from Proto-Celtic *kattā.

• IPA^(key): /kaːθ/

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• Rhymes: -aːθ

cath f (plural cathod or cathau)

1. cat
   1. wildcat

      Synonym: cath wyllt

2. (nautical) cat-o'-nine-tails
3. (games, with definite article as y gath) tipcat

   Synonym: pegi

   1. piece of wood used in this game

• cathbysgod (“catfish”)
• cathan, cath fach (“kitten”)
• cath wryw (“tom cat”)
• llygad cath (“cat's eye, retroreflector”)
• mintys y gath (“catmint, catnip”)
• morgath, cath fôr (“skate, ray”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies