NATO

See also: nato, Nato, ñato, nǟtõ, and .nato

English

Etymology 1

From North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.təʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Proper noun

NATO

1. Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
   • 1951 October 5, Activities in Europe Concerned with Material Support of NATO and MDAP‎^[1], Office of the Secretary of Defense, page 23:

     On the other hand, one still would have to note that relations between NATO in London and OSR in Paris were still not as closely integrated as might be desired, and that the power of decision, especially on industrial and financial matters, still was not centered in one place in the NATO.

   • 1964, Truman, Harry S., MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII‎^[2], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:18 from the start:

     Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.

   • 2007, Biden, Joe, Promises to Keep‎^[3], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, LCCN 2007019603, OCLC 1262796254, page 297:

     In the week since I’d seen him in the Oval Office, Bush had done well in Europe.[...]He’d made a strong statement on the expansion of NATO. “I believe in membership,” the president had said, “for all of Europe’s democracies that seek it and are ready to share the responsibilities that NATO brings.” […] The president had even gone out of his way to reassure Putin that he had nothing to fear from the enlargement of NATO, which would not include Russia.

Usage notes

• Although a definite article usually precedes North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as an acronym the article can be either present (the NATO) or absent (NATO), with the latter being much more common.

Alternative forms

• Nato

Derived terms

• NATOish
• NATOist

Descendants

• → Arabic: ناتو‎ (nātō)
• → Bengali: ন্যাটো (nêṭo), নেটো (neṭō)
• → Finnish: Nato, NATO; nato
• → German: NATO, Nato
• → Hebrew: נאט״ו‎ (nat"o)
• → Hindi: नैटो (naiṭo)
• → Japanese: NATO
• → Korean: 나토 (nato)
• → Polish: NATO
• → Portuguese: NATO
• → Russian: НА́ТО (NÁTO)
  • → Armenian: ՆԱՏՕ (NATŌ)
  • → Kyrgyz: НАТО (NATO)
• → Swedish: Nato, NATO
• → Telugu: నాటో (nāṭō)

Translations

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Afrikaans: NAVO
• Albanian: NATO
• Amharic: ኔቶ (neto)
• Arabic: الناتُو‎ (an-nātū)
• Aragonese: OTAN f
• Armenian: ՆԱՏՕ (hy) (NATŌ)
• Azerbaijani: NATO (az)
• Belarusian: НА́ТА f (NÁTA)
• Bengali: ন্যাটো (bn) (nêṭo), নেটো (bn) (neṭō)
• Bulgarian: НА́ТО (NÁTO)
• Burmese: နေတိုး (netui:)
• Catalan: OTAN (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北約／北约 (bak¹ joek³)

  Hakka: 北約／北约 (hak) (Pet-yok)

  Mandarin: 北約／北约 (zh) (Běiyuē)

  Min Nan: 北約／北约 (zh-min-nan) (Pak-iok)

• Czech: NATO (cs) n
• Danish: NATO
• Dutch: NAVO (nl)
• Esperanto: NATO
• Estonian: NATO (et)
• Finnish: NATO (fi)
• French: OTAN (fr) f
• Galician: OTAN (gl) f
• Georgian: ნატო (naṭo)
• German: NATO (de) f, Nato (de) f
• Greek: ΝΑΤΟ (el) (NATO), ΟΒΣ (OVS)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Haitian Creole: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: נאט״ו‎ f (nat"o)
• Hindi: नैटो (naiṭo)
• Hungarian: NATO (hu)
• Icelandic: NATÓ
• Ido: NATO
• Indonesian: NATO
• Interlingua: OTAN
• Irish: ECAT
• Italian: NATO (it), N.A.T.O.
• Japanese: NATO (ja) (Natō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: НАТО (NATO)
• Khmer: ណាតូ (naatou)
• Korean: 나토 (Nato)
• Krio: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: NATO (ku)

• Kyrgyz: НАТО (NATO)
• Lao: ເນໂຕ (nē tō)
• Latvian: NATO
• Lithuanian: NATO
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: НАТО f (NATO)
• Malayalam: നാറ്റോ (nāṟṟō)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: नाटो (nāṭo)
• Marshallese: please add this translation if you can
• Mingrelian: ნატო (naṭo)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Ndebele: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: NATO
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: NATO (no)

• Persian: ناتو‎ (fa) (nâto)
• Polish: NATO (pl)
• Portuguese: OTAN (pt) f, NATO (pt) f
• Romanian: NATO (ro)
• Russian: НА́ТО (ru) f (NÁTO)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: НАТО

  Roman: NATO (sh)

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: NATO (sk)
• Slovene: NATO (sl)
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Sotho: please add this translation if you can
• Southern Ndebele: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: OTAN (es) f
• Swedish: NATO (sv)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: НАТО (NATO)
• Telugu: నాటో (nāṭō)
• Thai: นาโต้ (naa-dtôo)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tsonga: please add this translation if you can
• Tswana: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: NATO (tr), KAAÖ (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: НА́ТО (uk) f (NÁTO)
• Urdu: نیٹو‎
• Uzbek: NATO
• Venda: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: NATO
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yakut: ХАҮТ (QAÜT)
• Yiddish: נאַט"אָ‎ (nat"o)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• NORAD, EUCOM, USEUCOM, NORTHCOM, USNORTHCOM, USLANTFLT, LANTFLT, USAFE, AFE, SEATO

Etymology 2

From no+action+talk+only, from talking without acting

Phrase

NATO

1. (slang, chiefly Malaysia and Singapore) Acronym of No Action Talk Only.

   Synonym: all talk and no action

   • 1998 May 30, Kicker, “First on Everest are not Singaporeans - Sure or not?”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     turn it off then. don't nato......pressure your government to do that.:)

   • 2003 January 24, ALIEN, “Spying activities at Pedra Branca”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     haiya...i think, hah....our GOV also nowadays becoming NATO! (NATO = No Action Talk Only...!!!)

Etymology 3

From National Association of Theatre Owners

Proper noun

NATO

1. (US, film) Acronym of National Association of Theatre Owners.

Further reading

• NATO at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “NATO”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “NATO”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “NATO”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “NATO” (US) / “NATO” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “NATO” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• NATO in Britannica Dictionary

Anagrams

• anot, nota, tona

German

Alternative forms

• Nato

Etymology

Borrowed from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːto/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

NATO f (proper noun, genitive NATO)

1. (with definite article) NATO

   Synonym: Nordatlantikpakt

   NATO-Streitkräfte ― NATO forces

   NATO-Truppen ― NATO troops

Declension

Declension of NATO [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	NATO
genitive	einer	der	NATO
dative	einer	der	NATO
accusative	eine	die	NATO

Further reading

• NATO on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “NATO” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “NATO” in Duden online

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ナ​トー [náꜜtòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [na̠to̞ː]

Proper noun

NATO(ナトー) • (Natō) 

1. NATO

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: NA‧TO

Proper noun

NATO n (indeclinable)

1. NATO

Derived terms

adjectives

• antynatowski
• NATO-wski
• natowski

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.tu/

• Homophone: nato
• Rhymes: -atu

Proper noun

NATO f

1. Synonym of OTAN

Turkish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English NATO.

Proper noun

NATO

1. NATO

   Synonym: KAAÖ

Declension

    declension of NATO

	singular	plural
nominative	NATO	NATOlar / NATO'lar
accusative	NATO'yu	NATOları / NATO'ları
dative	NATO'ya	NATOlara / NATO'lara
locative	NATO'da	NATOlarda / NATO'larda
ablative	NATO'dan	NATOlardan / NATO'lardan
genitive	NATO'nun	NATOların / NATO'ların