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.
Pure. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Pure. Clear. Innocent. 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.
Pure. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Pure. Clear. Innocent. 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.
This diminutive of Catherine or Kathleen is sometimes used as an independent name. Form of the Greek Catherine meaning 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.
