"Catania" meaning in Italian

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Proper name

IPA: /kaˈta.nja/ Forms: catanese [demonym]
Rhymes: -anja Etymology: Named by the indigenous Sicel people; from Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”) (compare Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē)). The name was adopted by Greek settlers, survived Hellenization and passed into Roman rule. Etymology templates: {{der|it|scx|katane|t=grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare}} Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”), {{cog|grc|κατάνη}} Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē) Head templates: {{it-proper noun|f|dem=catanese}} Catania f (demonym catanese)
  1. Catania (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Cities in Italy, Cities in Sicily, Italy, Municipalities of Italy, Places in Italy, Places in Sicily, Italy
    Sense id: en-Catania-it-name-7pBTqi8i Categories (other): Catania, Metropolitan city capitals of Italy
  2. Catania (a metropolitan city of Sicily, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Catania) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Places in Italy, Places in Sicily, Italy
    Sense id: en-Catania-it-name--CjuyoSs Categories (other): Metropolitan cities of Italy, Pages with entries, Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense, Italian proper nouns with irregular gender Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 31 2 6 2 26 3 2 26 Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 14 79 7 Disambiguation of Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense: 27 41 31 Disambiguation of Italian proper nouns with irregular gender: 14 70 16

Proper name

IPA: /kaˈta.nja/
Rhymes: -anja Etymology: Named by the indigenous Sicel people; from Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”) (compare Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē)). The name was adopted by Greek settlers, survived Hellenization and passed into Roman rule. Etymology templates: {{der|it|scx|katane|t=grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare}} Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”), {{cog|grc|κατάνη}} Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē) Head templates: {{it-proper noun|mfbysense}} Catania m or f by sense
  1. a habitational surname Tags: by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine Derived forms: catanese
    Sense id: en-Catania-it-name-PbabqTmI Categories (other): Italian surnames
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