The cater Surname
cater Name Meaning and History
- English: occupational name for the buyer of provisions for a large household, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French acatour (Late Latin acceptator, an agent derivative of acceptare ‘to accept’). Modern English caterer results from the addition of a second agent suffix to the word.
- Slovenian (Cater): status name for a person who read out the Slovenian ceremonial text at the installation of the Carantanian rulers and, later, Carinthian dukes, derived from the dialect verb catiti ‘to read’. Carantania was the early medieval Slovenian state on the territory of present-day Carinthia and Styria, now divided between Austria and Slovenia. The people’s installation of the Carantanian rulers was an exceptional example of democratic elections in medieval Europe. Thomas Jefferson knew about it and was influenced by it in his thinking about American Independence.
- Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Köter (see Koetter).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Jacob Cater of Steuben County NY |
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| Cater family | Janet Strange | 28 |
| Cathy Cater studied in Edinburgh c 1980 |
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| Looking for Information on my grandmother in NY. | Golda Mae Cater | 1 |
| Cater family of Jamaica |
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| Cater, Canton and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1870 - 1910 |
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| William Cater of Alabama |
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| orgins | silas douglass cater | 9 |
| Cater Family Devon, England --> Libertyville, Illinois |
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