câte

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɨ.te/

câte

1. feminine plural of cât

From Latin cata, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). The normal result in old Romanian would have been *cătă, later *căte, and was influenced by cât (see the above etymology). Compare Spanish and Portuguese cada, Occitan cadun, French chacun, Italian cadauno.

câte

1. in groups of, in series of (used to indicate a collective or distributive numeral, and often used with a number)

   unul câte unul

   one by one

   câte doi

   two each, in twos, two at a time

• câtelea
• câteodată