Categories: Common language, Nature, animals & plants
🇫🇷 (une, la) chatte [NF], (un, le) chat (de gouttière, domestique) [NM], (un, le) chaton [NM], (un, le) matou [NM], (un, le) minou [NM][DIM], (une, la) minette [NF][DIM]
Related term(s): domači, glavobol, hišni ljubljenček, mačica, sesalec, udomačiti, žival
IPA pronunciation: [ʃa],[ʃat],[ʃa.tɔ̃]
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les chats, des/les chattes, des/les chatons
Example(s) of use: « Les chats survivraient-ils à la disparition de l’humanité ? » 20 minutes (15/03/2021)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Tale] Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (Charles Perrault); Il Gatto Maestro o il Gatto con gli Stivali (Giovanni Francesco Straparola)
Expressions, idioms: chat échaudé craint l’eau froide
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] oparjen maček se še mrzle vode boji: osel gre samo enkrat na led, kogar je kača pičila, se boji zvite vrvi; [🇬🇧] scalded cat fears cold water: once bitten, twice shy
Synonyms or related terms: (un, le) félin, félin·e [ADJ], (un, le) haret, miaou [INTERJ.], (un, le) mistigri
Other meanings: chatte [SLNG][VULG]: [🇸🇮] muca, pizda, pička; [🇬🇧] pussy
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] cat, [🇬🇧] kitten, [🇬🇧] pussycat/pussy cat, [🇬🇧] she-cat, [🇬🇧] tom-cat/tomcat
In other languages: Felis silvestris catus [LAT]
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les chats, des/les chattes, des/les chatons
Example(s) of use: « Les chats survivraient-ils à la disparition de l’humanité ? » 20 minutes (15/03/2021)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Tale] Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (Charles Perrault); Il Gatto Maestro o il Gatto con gli Stivali (Giovanni Francesco Straparola)
Expressions, idioms: chat échaudé craint l’eau froide
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] oparjen maček se še mrzle vode boji: osel gre samo enkrat na led, kogar je kača pičila, se boji zvite vrvi; [🇬🇧] scalded cat fears cold water: once bitten, twice shy
Synonyms or related terms: (un, le) félin, félin·e [ADJ], (un, le) haret, miaou [INTERJ.], (un, le) mistigri
Other meanings: chatte [SLNG][VULG]: [🇸🇮] muca, pizda, pička; [🇬🇧] pussy
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] cat, [🇬🇧] kitten, [🇬🇧] pussycat/pussy cat, [🇬🇧] she-cat, [🇬🇧] tom-cat/tomcat
In other languages: Felis silvestris catus [LAT]