English Explanatory Dictionary

Chatteris

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3986).

Pronunciation

/ˈt͡ʃætɛɹɪs/

Word forms

Chatteris Chateriz Cheaterizt

Etymology

Recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) in the Middle English forms Cetriz and Cateriz. Theories of its derivation include: * a borrowing from an unattested Old Welsh intermediary of Middle Welsh cadeir (“hill-fort”) and Medieval Latin cathedra, akin to Catterick * a derivation from Old English Ceatta (a personal name, as in St Ceatta) + rīc (kingdom, authority) * a derivation from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (“wood, forest”) + *rrɨd (“ford”)

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