Kat

English Polish Greek

Pure. Pure; Spicy cinnamon.

English

Curly-headed.

English

Unheeded prophetess. In Homer's 'The Iliad' Cassandra's prediction of the fall of Troy was unheeded.

Greek Hungarian

Pure.

Hungarian Latin

Pure.

Greek Hungarian Polish Russian Slavic Maori Swedish

Pure. Maori form of Catherine. Swedish form of Katherine: pure.

English French Greek Irish Latin

A diminutive of Katherine: Pure. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Pure. Pure. Clear. From the Gaelic form Caitlin. 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.