catch
/kæt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.87 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work."
- "The player made an impressive catch."
- "Nice catch!"
- "Good catch. I never would have remembered that."
- ""In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener. "Nice catch," said Lucy."
- "The kids love to play catch."
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Indo-European *kaptós Proto-Italic *kaptos Latin captus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -io Vulgar Latin *captiāre Old French chacierbor. Anglo-Norman cachierbor. Middle English cacchen English catch From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Compare ketch. Via PIE cognate with have. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan. The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan), whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte), until becoming regularised in Modern English.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kæt͡ʃ/
- British English: /kæt͡ʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
catches (plural)
catches (present, singular)
catching (participle, present)
caught (participle, past)
caught (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
caught (first person, past)
catched (first person, nonstandard)
catchest (archaic, present)
caught (past, second person)
catched (nonstandard, past)
Derived Forms
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Homonyms
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