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cat
story (a floor level of a building) /ˈkat/
noun#656 most common
Also: floor, level
Example sentences
Casa noastră are un cat.
Our house has one story.
Blocul acesta are patru caturi.
This apartment building has four floors.
Vrem să construim o casă cu două caturi.
We want to build a two-story house.
Catul de sus este mai răcoros vara.
The upper floor is cooler in summer.
Vechea vilă avea trei caturi și un pod.
The old villa had three stories and an attic.
Arhitectura tradițională bănățeană preferă casele cu un singur cat, înălțate pe un soclu de piatră.
Traditional Banat architecture favors single-story houses, raised on a stone plinth.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cat | caturi |
| Genitive | catului | caturilor |
| Accusative | cat | caturi |
| Vocative | cat | caturi |
Word family
etajfloor, story (the more common everyday synonym, from French)nivellevel (general term, can overlap with building floors)
parterground floor (contrasted with upper caturi)
supraetajareadding an extra story to a building
Etymology
Romanian "cat" entered the language through Ottoman-era contact with Turkish, where "kat" means layer, floor, or story. The word spread across the Balkans during centuries of Ottoman administration, landing in Bulgarian and Serbian with the same meaning. In Romanian it settled in as a plain word for a building's floor level, alongside the Latinate "etaj".
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