by Skylax » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:00 am
On the web, they say that Kaitlyn is a Celtic form of Cateline, an old French form of Catherine. Turning the name into Latin, it is Catharina (Catalina in Spanish).<br /><br />The original Greek form is Aikaterine (Ekaterini), a word of obscure etymology, which became Katerina.<br />The name became then Catharina in Latin because the Latin-speaking people believed that the name derived from the Greek "katharos", meaning "pure".<br /><br />About etymology of names, a wonderful site :<br />http://www.babynameworld.com/<br /><br />Regards,<br />Fernand
