Other forms: catteries
A cattery is a place where cats are boarded. Book the cattery, leave him at the cattery, a licensed cattery.
In Britain one must be licensed and inspected by the council, and vaccination certificates are required before a cat is taken. Many cats find it stressful, which is why home visits by a sitter are the common alternative for a short trip.
1nouncatteryA place where cats are boarded.
“We left our cat at a cattery while we were on holiday.”
cattery is a place.
Middle English
cat
English
cat
English, today
cattery
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From cat + -ery. cat comes from Middle English cat. From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic kattu, from Proto-Germanic kattuz, generally thought to be from Latin cattus (“domestic cat”) (c. 350, Palladius), from Latin catta (c. 75 A.D., Martial), possibly from an afa language. a doublet of gato. A loan from Afro-Asiatic into European languages would roughly match how the animal itself spread, as genetic studies suggest domestic cats first began to spread out of the Near East / Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic, especially after they became popular and domesticated in Egypt 4000 years ago; they were found in Greece and Italy later, 2500 years ago. However, every proposed source word has presented problems. Adolphe Pictet and many subsequent sources refer to Barabra (Nubian) and "Nouba" (Nobiin) ⲕⲁⲇⲓ̄ⲥ (“kadīs”) as possible sources or cognates,Otto Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, vol. 1: Säugetiere (Leipzig, 1909), 75; Walther von Wartburg, ed. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, vol. 2 (Basel: R. G.
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