kato

See also: Kato, katõ, katō, Katō, -kato, and -ka'to

'Are'are

Noun

kato

1. basket

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/, [ˈka.t̪ʊ]

Etymology 1

Compare with kuto.

Noun

kato

1. dog tick

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Adverb

kato

1. that

   Synonym: kadto

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Esperanto

Pluraj rasoj de katoj

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cattus, possibly a Wanderwort from an Afroasiatic or Uralic language. Compare French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ‎ (kats), Italian gatto, German Katze, Polish kot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkato]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

Noun

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

1. cat

Hypernyms

• feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

Hyponyms

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

Meronyms

• kataĵo (“cat meat”)

Holonyms

• kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

Derived terms

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

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Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kato, from the same root as *katodak (see kadota).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑto/, [ˈkɑt̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to

Noun

kato

1. failure of crops
2. loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)

   yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience

Declension

Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1*F/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

Possessive forms of kato (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	katoni	katomme
2nd person	katosi	katonne
3rd person	katonsa

Derived terms

• kadota (verb)

Compounds

• immuunikato
• karvakato
• katoalue
• katokorvaus
• katovahinko
• katovuosi
• kulmakarvakato
• luukato
• otsonikato
• perikato
• silmäripsikato
• väestökato
• yleisökato

 

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtoˣ/, [ˈkɑt̪o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• katso
• ka (colloquial)

Interjection

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)

Synonyms

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

See also

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

Anagrams

• kota, toka

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

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Japanese

Romanization

kato

1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

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Maori

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.to/, [kɐ.tɔ]

Noun

kato

1. flow
2. current

Adjective

kato

1. flowing (of the tide)
2. flooding (of the tide)

Niuean

Noun

kato

1. basket

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀓𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• कतो (Devanagari script)
• কতো (Bengali script)
• කතො (Sinhalese script)
• ကတော or ၵတေႃ (Burmese script)
• กโต or กะโต (Thai script)
• ᨠᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ກໂຕ or ກະໂຕ (Lao script)
• កតោ (Khmer script)

Adjective

kato

1. nominative singular masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ka‧to

Noun

kato f

1. vocative singular of kata

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• cato – obsolete

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧tô
• IPA^(key): /kaˈtoʔ/, [kɐˈtoʔ]

Noun

katô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)

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