Etymology

cate

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Today it means: A delicacy or item of food. Full definition →

Old Northern French acat
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The story

  1. Old Northern French · derived fromacat“purchase”
  2. English todaycate

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.