kato
'Are'areEdit
NounEdit
kato
ReferencesEdit
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
CebuanoEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Compare with kuto.
NounEdit
kato
Etymology 2Edit
Unknown.
AdverbEdit
kato
EsperantoEdit
Pluraj rasoj de katoj
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)
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
HolonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- katherbo (“catnip”)
- mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)
FinnishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Finnic *kato, from the same root as *katodak (see kadota).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kato
- failure of crops
- loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)
- yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | |||
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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) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | katoni | katomme |
2nd person | katosi | katonne |
3rd person | katonsa |
Derived termsEdit
- kadota (verb)
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
kato
- (colloquial) look!
- Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!
- (colloquial) see (used often with ny)
- Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.
SynonymsEdit
InterjectionEdit
kato
- (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)
- Se on kato sillä lailla.
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kato (plural kati)
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
kato
MaoriEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kato
AdjectiveEdit
kato
NiueanEdit
NounEdit
kato
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
AdjectiveEdit
kato
- nominative singular masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kato f
TagalogEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- cato – obsolete
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
katô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)
- blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
- (figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness