Feline
Bestiary of Cat Indicies
(Latin) Felis Catus (Domestic)
(Family) Felidae (Carnivora Mammal Family)
In the European Folk or White Cultures including Anglo and Celt, they are also known/referred to as;
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(French) - Chat
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(Irish Gaelic) - Cat |
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Note: I have included related etymology (Origin of Words) for preserving the Language
and culture of Europe for Ethnic Europeans/English, at the end of this page.
- My Cat Sha
- Cat Varietys
- Growing up
- Health and Care
- Aging
- Diet
- Hair and Grooming
- In my Magickal Wyrdcraft and Druidry practice
Note: I have included related etymology (Origin of Words) for preserving the Language
and culture of Europe for Ethnic Europeans/English, at the end of this page.
My Cat Sha
Cat Varietys
(Currently around 60 breeds at the moment)
(Currently around 60 breeds at the moment)
Kittenhood
Health and Care
Aging
Diet
Hair and Grooming
In my Magickal Wyrdcraft and Druidry practice
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Related History and Etimology
The word cat is actually Gaelic. How do you say Cat in Gaelic? Cat... Just as werewolves folklore originates from Ireland so did the cat people who believed they descended from cats. The name Catherine or Katherine was a name given to females who came from the cat clans.
Regarding classifacations;
Cat domestication was initiated in ancient Egypt, as since around 3100 BC veneration was given to cats in ancient Egypt. As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second-most popular pet in the United States, with 95 million cats owned. In the United Kingdom, around 7.3 million cats lived in more than 4.8 million households as of 2019.
Going back to origins however, there seems to be a forgotten? history in origin in the Northern hemisphere descending from giant cats in the snow, but more on that another time.
cat (n.)
Old English catt (c. 700) "domestic cat," from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz (source also of Old Frisian katte, Old Norse köttr, Dutch kat, Old High German kazza, German Katze), from Late Latin cattus.
The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. Cats were domestic in Egypt from c. 2000 B.C.E., but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans. The nine lives have been proverbial at least since 1560s.
Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.). Independent, but ultimately from the same source are words in the Slavic group: Old Church Slavonic kotuka, kotel'a, Bulgarian kotka, Russian koška, Polish kot, along with Lithuanian katė and non-Indo-European Finnish katti, which is from Lithuanian.
Extended to lions, tigers, etc. c. 1600. As a term of contempt for a woman, from early 13c. Slang sense of "prostitute" is from at least c. 1400. Slang sense of "fellow, guy," is from 1920, originally in African-American vernacular; narrower sense of "jazz enthusiast" is recorded from 1931.
Cat's paw
(1769, but cat's foot in the same sense, 1590s) refers to the old folk tale in which the monkey tricks the cat into pawing chestnuts from a fire; the monkey gets the roasted nuts, the cat gets a burnt paw.
Cat burglar
is from 1907, so called for stealth. Cat-witted "small-minded, obstinate, and spiteful" (1670s) deserved to survive.
Regarding classifacations;
- F. catus domesticus Erxleben, 1777
- F. angorensis Gmelin, 1788
- F. vulgaris Fischer, 1829
Cat domestication was initiated in ancient Egypt, as since around 3100 BC veneration was given to cats in ancient Egypt. As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second-most popular pet in the United States, with 95 million cats owned. In the United Kingdom, around 7.3 million cats lived in more than 4.8 million households as of 2019.
Going back to origins however, there seems to be a forgotten? history in origin in the Northern hemisphere descending from giant cats in the snow, but more on that another time.
cat (n.)
Old English catt (c. 700) "domestic cat," from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz (source also of Old Frisian katte, Old Norse köttr, Dutch kat, Old High German kazza, German Katze), from Late Latin cattus.
The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. Cats were domestic in Egypt from c. 2000 B.C.E., but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans. The nine lives have been proverbial at least since 1560s.
Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.). Independent, but ultimately from the same source are words in the Slavic group: Old Church Slavonic kotuka, kotel'a, Bulgarian kotka, Russian koška, Polish kot, along with Lithuanian katė and non-Indo-European Finnish katti, which is from Lithuanian.
Extended to lions, tigers, etc. c. 1600. As a term of contempt for a woman, from early 13c. Slang sense of "prostitute" is from at least c. 1400. Slang sense of "fellow, guy," is from 1920, originally in African-American vernacular; narrower sense of "jazz enthusiast" is recorded from 1931.
Cat's paw
(1769, but cat's foot in the same sense, 1590s) refers to the old folk tale in which the monkey tricks the cat into pawing chestnuts from a fire; the monkey gets the roasted nuts, the cat gets a burnt paw.
Cat burglar
is from 1907, so called for stealth. Cat-witted "small-minded, obstinate, and spiteful" (1670s) deserved to survive.
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