kato

See also: Kato, katõ, katō, and Katō

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CebuanoEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Compare with kuto.

NounEdit

kato

1. dog tick

Etymology 2Edit

Undetermined

AdverbEdit

kato

1. that

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EsperantoEdit

katoj

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ‎‎‎ (kats‎‎), Italian gatto, German Katze, etc.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ato
• Audio:

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NounEdit

kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

1. cat

HypernymsEdit

• feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

HyponymsEdit

• kateto (“a small cat”)
• katiĉo (“a tom”) (neologism)
• katido (“a kitten”)
• katino (“a female cat”)
• virkato (“a tom”) (idiomatic)

MeronymsEdit

• kataĵo (“cat meat”)

HolonymsEdit

• kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

Derived termsEdit

• katherbo (“catnip”)
• mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)

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FinnishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Uralic *kaďa- (“to leave”). Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit (“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed (“to leave smth”), Moksha кадомс (kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш (kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны (kylʹyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy (“to let, to leave”), Mansi хули (“to leave”), Selkup [Term?] (/quəčə-/, “to leave”). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu (“loss”).

PronunciationEdit

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑto]

NounEdit

kato

1. Failure of crops.
2. Loss, disappearance, lack; used primarily in compound terms.

   yleisökato = lack or loss of audience

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative		kato	kadot
genitive		kadon	katojen
partitive		katoa	katoja
illative		katoon	katoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		kato	kadot
accusative	nom.	kato	kadot
	gen.	kadon
genitive		kadon	katojen
partitive		katoa	katoja
inessive		kadossa	kadoissa
elative		kadosta	kadoista
illative		katoon	katoihin
adessive		kadolla	kadoilla
ablative		kadolta	kadoilta
allative		kadolle	kadoille
essive		katona	katoina
translative		kadoksi	kadoiksi
instructive		—	kadoin
abessive		kadotta	kadoitta
comitative		—	katoineen

Derived termsEdit

• verbs: kadota

CompoundsEdit

• katokorvaus
• katovahinko
• katovuosi
• kulmakarvakato
• silmäripsikato
• yleisökato

Etymology 2Edit

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

PronunciationEdit

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtoˣ]

VerbEdit

kato

1. (colloquial) look!

   Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!

2. (colloquial) see (used often with ny)

   Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.

SynonymsEdit

• katso
• ka (colloquial)

InterjectionEdit

kato

1. (colloquial) see or look.
   • Se on kato sillä lailla.
     • See, that’s the way it is.
   • Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
     • Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
   • Kato nääs, säkin olet saapunut paikalle.
     • Lo and behold, you have arrived on the scene, too.
   • ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
     • ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)

SynonymsEdit

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

See alsoEdit

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

AnagramsEdit

• kota, toka

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IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Esperanto kato, from Latin cattus.

NounEdit

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

kato

1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

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NiueanEdit

NounEdit

kato

1. basket

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NovialEdit

EtymologyEdit

kate +‎ -o (masculine nominal suffix).

NounEdit

kato m (plural katos)

1. tomcat, male cat

HypernymsEdit

• kate (“cat”)

Coordinate termsEdit

• kata (“female cat”)

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TagalogEdit

NounEdit

katô

1. blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
2. (figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness