tato - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

Chamorro[edit]

Numeral[edit]

tato

1. (Old Chamorro) three (in reference to living beings).

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtato]

Pronoun[edit]

tato

1. inflection of tento:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

Further reading[edit]

• tato in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• tato in Internetová jazyková příručka

Fula[edit]

Numeral[edit]

tato

1. (Pulaar dialect, with human nouns) three

   rewɓe tato

   three women

See also[edit]

• tati

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato̝/

Noun[edit]

tatom (plural tatos)

1. stutterer (one who stutters)

   Synonym: gago

Adjective[edit]

tato (feminine tata, masculine plural tatos, feminine plural tatas)

1. stuttering

   Synonym: gago

2. nasal (voice)

Derived terms[edit]

• tatexar
• tatexo

Related terms[edit]

• gago

References[edit]

• “tato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian[edit]

See Also

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tato

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology[edit]

From English tattoo, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun[edit]

tato (first-person possessive tatoku, second-person possessive tatomu, third-person possessive tatonya)

1. tattoo

Alternative forms[edit]

• tatu (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Synonyms[edit]

• rajah

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “tato” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Baby talk, likely by analogy of tata (“nanny”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: tà‧to

Noun[edit]

tatom (plural tati) (regional, childish)

1. Form of address for an older male, especially:
   1. one's father. daddy, papa
   2. an older brother.
   3. any man, especially if young, taking care of the child.

References[edit]

• tato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun[edit]

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“he, it, that”)

Paumarí[edit]

Noun[edit]

tatof

1. armadillo

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧to

Noun[edit]

tatompers

1. (endearing) dad

   Synonyms: tata, ojciec

Declension[edit]

(* regional (Eastern Poland))

Noun[edit]

tatom

1. vocative singular of tata

Further reading[edit]

• tato in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tato in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• tacto

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin tāctus (“sense of touch”), from tāctus (“touched”), perfect passive participle of tangō (“to touch”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun[edit]

tatom (plural tatos)

1. the sense of touch

Coordinate terms[edit]

• (human senses) sentido; audição, olfacto/olfato, gosto/paladar, tacto/tato, visão

Related terms[edit]

• tanger
• tatear
• tátil

Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta), from Sanskrit तप्त (tapta).

Adjective[edit]

tato (feminine tati, plural tate)

1. warm

References[edit]

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “taptá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page323
• Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “tató¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum: mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page277
• Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Other characteristic features of Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project‎^[1], Manchester, archived from the original on 2021-08-28
• Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page39
• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “tat/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram: cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page348

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A contraction of está todo (bien) ("everything's good").

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ta‧to

Interjection[edit]

tato

1. (slang, Dominican Republic) alright, that is all, OKAY, that’s it

Noun[edit]

tatom (plural tatos, feminine tata, feminine plural tatas)

1. (colloquial) big brother

Further reading[edit]

• “tato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• tatu

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English tattoo, from a Polynesian language.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /taˈtoʔ/, [tɐˈtoʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun[edit]

tatô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. tattoo

   Synonym: (Batangas) pika

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

• tatak

Further reading[edit]

• “tato” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[3], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “tato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ternate[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.to]

Noun[edit]

tato

1. any of several fish among the triggerfish (Balistidae) and the filefish (Monacanthidae)

References[edit]

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Abbreviation of pytato, from English potato.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtatɔ/

Noun[edit]

tatofpl

1. (South Wales) plural of taten

Synonyms[edit]

• tatws

Derived terms[edit]

• (South Wales) tato newi (“new potatoes”)

Mutation[edit]