According to an employment outlook report released today by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Purdue University, there is an average of 35,400 new U.S. graduates with a bachelor's degree or higher in agriculture related fields, 22,500 short of the jobs available annually.
The English word ' cat ' (Old English catt) is in origin a loanword, introduced to many languages of Europe from Latin cattus and Byzantine Greek ÎºÎ¬ÏÏÎ±, including Portuguese and Spanish gato, French chat, German Katze, Lithuanian katÄ, and Old Church Slavonic kotka, among others.
Word Origin and History for tomcat Expand. n. 1809, from Tom + cat; probably influenced by Tom the Cat in the popular children's book The Life and Adventures of a Cat (1760); replaced earlier Gib-cat, from diminutive of Gilbert, though Tom was applied to male kittens c.1300. Used of the males of other beasts and birds since 1791. Cf. also Tibert.