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rato

(Redirected from un rato)
See also: RATO and Rato

English edit

Noun edit

rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)

  1. Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)

Anagrams edit

'Are'are edit

Noun edit

rato

  1. sun

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Catalan edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Spanish rato.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos)

  1. (Castilianism) moment
    Synonym: estona

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

rato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Esperanto edit

 
Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Rato en urba strato

Etymology edit

Probably of Romance origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈrato]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ra‧to

Noun edit

rato (accusative singular raton, plural ratoj, accusative plural ratojn)

  1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)

Derived terms edit

Galician edit

Etymology edit

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted.[1] Compare English rat.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos)

  1. mouse
  2. (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
  3. saury (Scomberesox saurus)

Related terms edit

References edit

  • “rraton” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “rato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “rato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “rato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “rata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French râteau.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rato

  1. rake

References edit

  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Ido edit

 
rato (de speco Rattus rattus).

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rato (plural rati)

  1. rat

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ratus, perfect passive participle of reor (“to deem, judge”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: rà‧to

Adjective edit

rato (feminine rata, masculine plural rati, feminine plural rate)

  1. (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
  2. (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)
    Antonyms: invalido, irrito
  3. (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato

Further reading edit

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

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Adjective edit

ratō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ratus

References edit

  • “rato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rato in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old High German edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

Noun edit

rato m

  1. rat

Descendants edit

  • Middle High German: ratte, rate

Portuguese edit

 
rato (Mus musculus)

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Rhymes: -atu
  • Hyphenation: ra‧to

Etymology 1 edit

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

  1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)
  2. mouse (any rodent of the genus Mus)
    Synonym: (Brazil) camundongo
  3. (computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
    Synonym: (Brazil) mouse
  4. burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)
    Synonyms: gatuno, ladrão
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos)

  1. (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)
    Synonyms: bocado, pouco

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

rato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈrato/ [ˈra.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: ra‧to

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin raptus.

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos)

  1. a while, bit (a short period of time)
    • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
      Durante tres meses, en los ratos libres que le deja el periódico y su labor clandestina escribe un poema de más de seiscientos versos en donde se sumerge en el misterio y en el martirio de los poetas menores.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. time
    Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.
    He/She had a good time watching the movie.
    Me hizo pasar un mal rato.
    I had a terrible time because of him/her.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See rata, the modern term.

Noun edit

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

  1. (archaic) male rat

Further reading edit

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rato (Jawi راتو)

  1. a gust of wind
  2. a storm

References edit

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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