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gato

Bambara edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French gâteau.

Noun edit

gato

  1. cake

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

Pronunciation edit

  • (standard) IPA(key): [ˈɡatʊ]
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): [ˈħatʊ]
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Noun edit

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 528:
      Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures
      And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “gato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “gato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “gato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading edit

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French gâteau.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gato

  1. cake

Hausa edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French gateau.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gā̀tô m (possessed form gā̀tôn)

  1. (Niger) cake
    Synonym: (Nigeria) kyât

Ladino edit

Etymology edit

From Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

Noun edit

gato m (Latin spelling, plural gatos)

  1. cat

Lower Sorbian edit

Etymology edit

From dygato, from gdygato.

Adverb edit

gato

  1. recently

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gato”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gato”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Mauritian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French gâteau.

Noun edit

gato

  1. cake

References edit

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

Adjective edit

gato

  1. nominative singular masculine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

Portuguese edit

 
gato siamês

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus; compare also catta, possibly of ultimately Afroasiatic origin. See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -atu
  • Hyphenation: ga‧to
  • Audio (Brazil)(file)

Noun edit

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat (domestic cat: Felis silvestris catus)
    Synonyms: (formal designation) gato-doméstico, gato caseiro
    • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:
      [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.
      [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.
  2. (by extension) feline, felid, cat
    Synonyms: felino, felídeo
  3. one of a number of utensils made of iron or similar material used to fix objects
  4. excess flesh on the upper part of riding animals
  5. (colloquial) very handsome person
    Synonyms: pão, bom
  6. (Brazil, colloquial) an illegal connection to use electricity or watch pay TV for free
    Synonym: gambiarra
  7. (Brazil, colloquial) a petty thief
    Synonyms: gatuno, trombadinha
  8. (Brazil, colloquial) truck driver who rents boias-frias to work on farming
  9. (Alentejo) wineskin
  10. (Trás-os-Montes) error, mistake
    Synonyms: erro, engano
  11. (Trás-os-Montes) lie (deliberately false statement)
    Synonym: mentira
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Annobonese: gatu
  • Kabuverdianu: gátu
  • →? Gulf Arabic: قطو (gaṭu)

Adjective edit

gato (feminine gata, masculine plural gatos, feminine plural gatas, comparable, comparative mais gato, superlative o mais gato or gatíssimo, diminutive gatinho, augmentative gatão)

  1. (Brazil, informal, of a person) physically attractive
    Synonyms: belo, bonito, giro
    Ela é muito gata. ― She is very beautiful.

Further reading edit

  • “gato” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

gato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gatar

Seychellois Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French gâteau.

Noun edit

gato

  1. cake

References edit

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish edit

 
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gato

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡato/ [ˈɡa.t̪o]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: ga‧to

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat, Italian gatto, Portuguese gato). See cat for more.

Noun edit

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat (unspecified gender)
    Synonyms: felino, félido
    Hyponyms: azul ruso, Gato de Cheshire, gato montés, gato persa, gato atigrado, gato colorado, gato exótico (“Exotic Shorthair”), siamés, devon rex (“Devon Rex”), korat (“Korat”), cartujo (“Chartreux”), gato de Van (“Turkish van”), abisinio (“Abyssinian cat”), Manx, gato Manx, gato de Borneo, gato del desierto, gato Bombay (“Bombay cat”), gato común europeo (“European shorthair”), rex alemán (“German Rex”), gato himalayo (“Himalayan cat”), bosque de Noruega (“Norwegian forest cat”)
  2. tomcat, gib (male cat)
  3. (Mexico) servant
    Synonyms: achichincle, servidor, sirviente, mozo, criado
  4. C-clamp
  5. jack (mechanical device)
  6. (Mexico) tic-tac-toe
    Synonym: tres en línea
  7. (colloquial) Madrilenian (a person from Madrid)
    Synonym: madrileño
  8. (Costa Rica) person with blue or green eyes
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from French gâteau.

Noun edit

gato m (plural gatos)

  1. (Costa Rica) rectangular cake made of two layers joined by jam in the middle

Etymology 3 edit

Back-formation from gatillar.[1][2]

Noun edit

gato m (plural gatos)

  1. (obsolete, slang, Argentina) whoremonger
  2. (vulgar, slang, Argentina) a prostitute woman

References edit

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2]

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Venetian edit

 
Dei gati

Alternative forms edit

  • gat (Dialectal)

Etymology edit

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa.to/
  • Hyphenation: gàto

Noun edit

gato m (plural gati)

  1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

gato

  1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of gadael

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gato ato ngato unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

gato

  1. Soft mutation of cato.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cato gato nghato chato
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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