English

Medieval English form of the Irish Caitlin. Pure.

English

Medieval English form of the Irish Caitlin. Pure.

English Greek

Phonetic form of Caitlin - the Irish form of Katherine. Pure. Pure.

English French Irish Latin

diminutive of Catherine or Kathleen. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. 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.

English Russian Literary

Pure. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, where it belongs to the shrew, and daughter to Baptista.

English Greek Irish Latin Literary

Pure. Used since third century A. D. Early Latin forms Katerina and Caterina became Katharine and Catherine. French Cateline and English Catlyn came into wider use during medieval period when variants multiplied. Form of the Greek Catherine meaning 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. A literary name from Shakespeare's King Henry V, where it belongs to daughter to Charles and Isabel, King and Queen of France.

English

Pure.