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kitten (n.)
late 14c., probably from an Anglo-French variant of Old French
chitoun
(Old North French
caton
) "little cat," from
chat
"cat," from Late Latin
cattus
(see
cat
). Applied playfully to a young girl, a sweetheart, from 1870.