Meerkatze

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German merekatze, from Old High German merikazza (11th century); equivalent to Meer (“sea”) +‎ Katze (“cat”). So called probably because they were brought to Europe over the sea from Africa. The restriction to the specific species is obviously not original, but a fairly recent scientific use. Adelung (ca. 1780) still defines it as referring to any long-tailed monkey. Compare Middle Dutch meercatte, whence eventually English meerkat. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmeːrˌkatsə/, [ˈmeːɐ̯ˌkät͡sə], [ˈmɛɐ̯-] === Noun === Meerkatze f (genitive Meerkatze, plural Meerkatzen) guenon (kind of monkey) ==== Usage notes ==== Not to be confused with English meerkat (“kind of mongoose”), the German word for which is Erdmännchen. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Grüne Meerkatze f === Further reading === “Meerkatze” in Duden online “Meerkatze”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)