Castilian lineage · noun
ˈkato
cat
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gloss
- cat
- Evidence
- attested
- Note
- Expressive initial voicing is intentionally outside the regular rule set.
- Attested from
- Classical Latin
History7 stages
Classical Latin
ˈkattu
Earliest form recorded
Late Latin
ˈkattu
unchanged
Proto-Romance
ˈkatu
tt > t
Early Ibero-Romance
ˈkatu
unchanged
Old Castilian
ˈkatu
unchanged
Medieval Castilian
ˈkato
u > o / _#
Modern Spanish
ˈkato
unchanged
Same origin elsewhere