Why are kittens called kittens?

Answer 1

== == The modern word "cat" has been the same since Old English. It came from Western/Proto- Germanic as "kattuz", from Late Latin "cattus", from Latin "catta", from Byzantine Greek "katta". Felines have always been referred to as such and the term is not derived from anything else.

Answer 2

There was an old Latin word 'animale' which means a living being, something that breathes. In other words, animals and human beings shared the same name. An alternative name 'beast' or 'bestia' could be Latin, but of uncertain origin, translated as 'wild animal or simply beast'. 'Bestia' came to England as a French word 'beste' although the original translation was 'fool or idiot' or 'something that walked on four legs', or a 'wild creature'. As words change with the passage of time, 'beast' became less fashionable in the 15th Cantury and 'animal' was used as the English preference

Answer 3

A kitten (Old Englishdiminutive of cat) is a juvenile domesticated cat (Felis catus) that is not fully-grown

Answer 4

A cat is a feline, actually.

Scientific Classification:

They are from the class Mammalia, the order Carnivora, the family Felidae, the genus Felis, and the species of the domestic cat is called F. catus.

Therefore, the domestic cat is a feline.

Answer 5

You.

You are the one that, most of the time, Decides the cats name

Answer 6

Becuase my dear friend, in ancient latten "kit" means low life slackers and "ens" means giant pirahna fish bait. thus, they joined these two things together and got Kitens

Answer 7

If your question is "Why do cats have names?" then it's because people want to name them like how we name everything else.

Answer 8

That is because they are confusing small cats for a 'kitten' which is a newly born cat.

Answer 9

Feline derives from Latin 'feles' and canines from Latin 'canis'