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Etymology
ME. catel < AF. catel, �personal property� < L. capitale �of the head�. Compare capital.
Pronunciation
enPR|k�t'l, IPA|/�kæt(�)l/, SAMPA|/"k{t(@)l/
:rhymes|æt�l
Noun
en-noun|uncountable or plurale tantum
- Collective noun for bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
#: Do you want to raise cattle?
- Plural for bovine animals.
#: Look at those five cattle.
- Certain other domestic animals, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
- beef|Beef.
#: I hate eating cattle.
Usage notes
There is no singular form for "cattle", and the words for the particular types of cattle are used: "bull", "calf" etc.
There are five cows and a calf in that herd of cattle.
Where the type is unknown, "cow" is often used (although properly a cow is only an adult female).
Is that a cow in the road?
When used as an uncountable noun, the phrase "head of cattle" is used for countable quantities of cattle.
He sold 50 head of cattle last year.
However, "cattle" is often used as an ordinary plural rather than as as an uncountable noun.
I have fifteen cattle.
In some circumstances the uncountable form is not used.
How many cattle? (not how much cattle?).
Synonyms
(Scientific): Bos taurus
Translations
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Albanian: bagëti
Alemannic: kuh
Basque: behi-azienda
Belarusian: ка�ова
Breton: chatal p penn-chatal singulier m
Bulgarian: говедо, �ко� (govedo, skot)
Catalan: bovÃ
Chinese: � (niú)
Croatian: govedo
Czech: skot m, tur domácà m
Danish: tamkvæg
Dutch: rund n
Esperanto: bovino (bovo|bov´ in´o).
Estonian: veis
Faroese: neyt
Finnish: nauta, karja
French: bovin m
Frisian: ko
Friulian: bovin / nemâl
Gallegan: boi
German: Rind n, Vieh n
Greek: β�δι (taurus)
Hebrew: �קר (baqar)
Hungarian: szarvasmarha
Icelandic: kýr, naut
Indonesian: sapi
Interlingua: vacca
Irish: ba (plural)
Italian: bovini
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Japanese: � (��, ushi)
Korean: � (so)
Ladin: arment
Latin: bos
Latvian: liellopigovs
Lithuanian: galvijai m|p, pekus m (means herd of cattle)
Low Saxon: rindveeh
Lower Sorbian: gowjedo
Macedonian: говедо (govedo)
Malayalam: �ന�ന��ാലി (kannukaali)
Maltese: bhejjem
Norwegian: kveg, oksedyr, storfe
Occitan: vaca
Polish: byd�o n
Portuguese: gado bovino
Romanian: vite
Romansh: bov
Romany: gurumnya f
Russian: �ко� (skot) m, ко�о�ва (koróva)
Sami: burru, vuoksá; gussa (cow)
Sardinian: bulu, óinu, bà cchinu, bóinu, bacca
Scottish: crodh
Serbian: говедо (govedo)
Slovak: dobytok
Slovenian: govedo
Spanish: ganado bovino m
Swedish: boskap n, kreatur n, nötdjur n, fä n *Turkish: sı�ır/sı�ırlar
Ukrainian: ко�ова, ��доба (korova, hudoba)
Upper Sorbian: howjado
Volapük: kun
Welsh: gwartheg p, buwch
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Derived terms
cattleman
cattlewoman
cattle dog
cattle grid
cattle-rearing or rearing cattle.
cattle truck
Related terms
Angus
bull
calf
cow
ox
steer
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