Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Clipping of catheterize (“to insert a cath(eter) into a cavity”).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryClipping of cathode. · Clipping of catheter. · Clipping of cathinone. · Clipping of Catholic.
Clippings of various words, based on their shared prefix cath-, primarily from Ancient Greek κᾰθ’ (kăth’), κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ, whence English cata-); the cath- in cathinone is from Catha, the genus name of Catha edulis, a Latinization of Arabic قات (qāt), the plant's native name (whence English khat).
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- Derivation mentionκᾰθ’,κᾰτᾰ́grc
- Derivation mentionقاتar
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