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Kittened

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kit⋅ten

  [kit-n]
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–noun
1. a young cat.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2. (of cats) to give birth; bear.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME kitoun, appar. b. kiteling kitling and MF chitoun, var. of chaton kitten

Related forms:
kit⋅ten⋅like, adjective
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kit·ten   (kĭt'n)   
n.  A young cat.
intr.v.   kit·tened, kit·ten·ing, kit·tens
To bear kittens.

[Middle English kitoun, probably from Old North French *caton, diminutive of cat, cat, from Late Latin cattus.]
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Word Origin & History

kitten 
1377, probably from an Anglo-Fr. variant of O.Fr. chitoun (O.N.Fr. caton) "little cat," from chat "cat," from L.L. cattus (see cat). Applied playfully to a young girl, a sweetheart, from 1870.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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