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pat

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pat"

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚], enPR: pǎt
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  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.

Noun edit

pat (plural pats)

  1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
    We heard a pat on the door.
  2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
    Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
  3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
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Verb edit

pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)

  1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
    To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
  2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
    I patted the cookie dough into shape.
    • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC:
      Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
  3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
    Do you want to pat the cat?
  4. To gently rain.
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Translations edit
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Adjective edit

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

  1. Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
    a pat expression
    • 1788, William Cowper, Pity For Poor Africans 17–20:
      Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind a story so pat, you may think it is coin’d, on purpose to answer you, out of my mint; but, I can assure you, I saw it in print.
    • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way :
      Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
      We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.
  2. Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hackneyed
    • 1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 11:
      While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information.
    • 2010 May 22, “Jobs and the Class of 2010”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.
    • 2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros properties”, in The A.V. Club‎[2]:
      Space Jam: A New Legacy takes almost nothing but wrong turns, all leading to a glittering CGI trash heap of cameos, pat life lessons, and stale internet catchphrases.
    • 2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 2, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:
      Pat responses from management seemed to be multiple variations on the theme of “We value your feedback.”
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Adverb edit

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

  1. Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
  2. Perfectly.
    He has the routine down pat.
    • 1922 September 22, “At the Wauwatosa Table”, in City Club News, volume viii, number 2, Milwaukee, page 7:
      Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.
    • 1962, Newsweek:
      Candidates in gubernatorial campaigns must stand pat in the middle, trying to push their rivals off the center line, charging the opponent with either left or right extremism.
    • 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day, page 112:
      In Ogoni[land], Shell locations lie pat in the middle of villages, in front and back gardens – and that should lay a particular responsibility on Shell to be absolutely cautious in its operations.
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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

pat (plural pats)

  1. Clipping of patent.
  2. (knitting) Clipping of pattern.
    • 2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World, page 52:
      Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder […]

Etymology 3 edit

Clipping of patrician.

Adjective edit

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

  1. (slang) Upper-class, nobby.

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Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Alternative variant of participles patur, pasë, pasur. See pata (“I had”) (aorist form of kam (“I have”)) for more.

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

pat

  1. participle of kam (present)
  2. participle of pata (aorist)

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Aromanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin patior. Compare Daco-Romanian păți.

Verb edit

pat first-singular present indicative (past participle pãtsitã)

  1. to experience, undergo (something bad, unpleasant, unexpected, etc.)

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Bakung edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Bariai edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. stone

References edit

Belait edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Bintulu edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Bunun edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Central Melanau edit

Central Melanau cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : pat

Etymology edit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Chinese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

Classifier edit

pat

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 坺 (pet6)

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噼 (pet1)

Chuj edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. house

Chuukese edit

Adjective edit

pat

  1. cold

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.[1]

Noun edit

pat m inan

  1. (chess) stalemate
  2. stalemate (blocked situation)
Declension edit
Declension of pat (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative pat paty
genitive patu patů
dative patu patům
accusative pat paty
vocative pate paty
locative patu patech
instrumental patem paty

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

pat f

  1. genitive plural of pata

References edit

  1. ^ "pat" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Further reading edit

  • pat in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pat in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat c

  1. stalemate
  2. alternative form of patte (“teat”)

Verb edit

pat

  1. imperative of patte (“to suck”)

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.

Noun edit

pat n (uncountable)

  1. (chess) tie, draw, stalemate
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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

pat c (plural patten, diminutive patje n)

  1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

Eskayan edit

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat m (plural pats)

  1. (chess) stalemate

Descendants edit

  • → German: Patt
  • → Greek: πατ (pat)
  • → Polish: pat
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pat
  • → Slovak: pat

Further reading edit

Haitian Creole edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From French pâte.

Noun edit

pat

  1. dough
  2. paste
  3. shoe polish
  4. toothpaste

Etymology 2 edit

Contraction edit

pat

  1. Contraction of pa te.
    Li pat di m sa. ― She didn't tell me that.

References edit

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

Hokkien edit

For pronunciation and definitions of pat – see 捌.
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 捌).

Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat n (genitive singular pats, no plural)

  1. gesticulation, gesture

Declension edit

declension of pat
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative pat patið
accusative pat patið
dative pati patinu
genitive pats patsins

Related terms edit

Anagrams edit

Indonesian edit

Numeral edit

pat

  1. Clipping of empat.

Javanese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Javanese pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Krio edit

Etymology edit

From English part.

Noun edit

pat

  1. part

Lamaholot edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Latin edit

Verb edit

pāt

  1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of pāscō

Latvian edit

Particle edit

pat

  1. even

Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)[1]

Particle edit

pàt (indeclinable)

  1. very, right (to emphasize location)
    čia pat ― right here
    iš pat dugno ― from the very bottom
  2. very, right (to emphasize time)
    dabar pat ― right now
    iki pat saulėlydžio ― right until sunset
  3. very, same (to emphasize sameness)
    tas pat žmogus ― the very person
    tokia pat spalva ― the same color (literally, “just such a color”)

References edit

  1. ^ “pat”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Further reading edit

  • “pat”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • “pat”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Livonian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *patto. Cognates include Estonian patt.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. sin

References edit

  • Lauri Kettunen (1938) Livisches Wörterbuch mit grammatischer Einleitung, Helsinki, page 277

Maguindanao edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Maia edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. stone

Malay edit

Malay cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : pat

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

pat (Jawi spelling ڤت)

  1. Alternative form of empat

Descendants edit

  • Indonesian: pat

Manggarai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Maranao edit

Maranao numbers (edit)
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: pat

Etymology edit

Akin to Maguindanao upat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Marshallese edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Micronesian *pasa, from Proto-Oceanic *basa, an alternative form of Proto-Oceanic *pasa.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. swamp

References edit

Murik (New Guinea) edit

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Descendants edit

Polish edit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta, probably from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat m animal (diminutive pacik)

  1. (chess) stalemate
  2. (figuratively, by extension) stalemate (any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss)

Declension edit

Declension of pat
singular plural
nominative pat paty
genitive pata patów
dative patowi patom
accusative pata paty
instrumental patem patami
locative pacie patach
vocative pacie paty

Derived terms edit

adjective
verbs

Further reading edit

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

Puyuma edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Rejang Kayan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Rembong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral edit

pat

  1. four

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Often thought to be from Greek πάτος (pátos, “path”), but also possibly from Latin pactum (“fastened, fixed, planted”), with the loss of the -p- in the normal result, *papt, explicable through dissimilation from the initial consonant; compare păta, boteza. [1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat n (plural paturi)

  1. bed

Declension edit

Declension of pat
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pat patul (niște) paturi paturile
genitive/dative (unui) pat patului (unor) paturi paturilor
vocative patule paturilor

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References edit

  1. ^ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

References edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French pat.

Pronunciation edit

  This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Noun edit

pat m (Cyrillic spelling пат)

  1. (chess) stalemate

Declension edit

Declension of pat
singular plural
nominative pat patovi
genitive pata patova
dative patu patovima
accusative pat patovi
vocative pat patovi
locative patu patovima
instrumental patom patovima

Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French pat.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pat m inan (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (chess) stalemate

Declension edit

Declension of pat
singular plural
nominative pat paty
genitive patu patov
dative patu patom
accusative pat paty
locative pate patoch
instrumental patom patmi

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • “pat”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Toba Batak edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. foot

References edit

  • Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 146.

Tocharian B edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha)

Noun edit

pat

  1. stupa

Volapük edit

Etymology edit

From French particularité.

Noun edit

pat (nominative plural pats)

  1. particularity

Declension edit

declension of pat
singular plural
nominative pat pats
genitive pata patas
dative pate pates
accusative pati patis
vocative 1 o pat! o pats!
predicative 2 patu patus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Yucatec Maya edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. school shark

Zou edit

Noun edit

pat

  1. cotton

References edit

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