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Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Pure, clear. A Scottish Gaelic variant of 'Catherine', which is the French form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. Pure. Clear. Variant of Katherine meaning pure. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel.