tato

See also: Tato, tãto, ťato, тато, and táto

Chamorro

Numeral

tato

1. (Old Chamorro) three (in reference to living beings).

   Synonym: tres

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtato]

Pronoun

tato

1. inflection of tento:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

Further reading

• “tato”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “tato”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Fula

Numeral

tato

1. (Pulaar dialect, with human nouns) three

   rewɓe tato

   three women

See also

• tati

Galician

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun

tato m (plural tatos)

1. stutterer (one who stutters)

   Synonym: gago

Adjective

tato (feminine tata, masculine plural tatos, feminine plural tatas)

1. stuttering

   Synonym: gago

2. nasal (voice)

   Synonym: nasal

Derived terms

• tatexar
• tatexo

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

From English tattoo, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun

tato (uncountable)

1. tattoo

Alternative forms

• tatu (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Synonyms

• rajah

Derived terms

• bertato
• menato
• mentato
• penato
• penatoan
• tertato

 

Further reading

• “tato” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Baby talk, related to tata (“nanny”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: tà‧to

Noun

tato m (plural tati) (regional, childish)

1. Form of address for an older male, especially:
   1. one's father, daddy, papa
   2. an older brother
   3. any man, especially if young, taking care of the child

References

• tato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• ततो (Devanagari script)
• ততো (Bengali script)
• තතො (Sinhalese script)
• တတော or တတေႃ (Burmese script)
• ตโต or ตะโต (Thai script)
• ᨲᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕໂຕ or ຕະໂຕ (Lao script)
• តតោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

Adjective

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“he, it, that”)

Paumarí

Noun

tato f

1. armadillo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧to

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tato m pers

1. (endearing) dad

   Synonyms: tata, ojciec

Declension

Declension of tato

	singular	plural
nominative	tato	tatowie
genitive	taty/tata	tatów
dative	tacie/tatowi	tatom
accusative	tatę/tata	tatów
instrumental	tatą/tatem	tatami
locative	tacie	tatach
vocative	tato	tatowie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

tato m pers

1. vocative singular of tata

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tacto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tāctus (“sense of touch”), from tāctus (“touched”), perfect passive participle of tangō (“to touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.tu/

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

Noun

tato m (plural tatos)

1. the sense of touch

Coordinate terms

• (human senses) sentido; audição, olfacto/olfato, gosto/paladar, tacto/tato, visão

Related terms

• tanger
• tatear
• tátil

 

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit तप्त (tapta).

Adjective

tato (feminine tati, plural tate)

1. warm

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taptá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 323
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “tató¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 277
• Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Other characteristic features of Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project‎^[1], Manchester, archived from the original on August 28, 2021
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “tat/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 348

Spanish

Etymology

A contraction of está todo (bien) ("everything's good").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ta‧to

Interjection

tato

1. (slang, Dominican Republic) alright, that is all, OKAY, that’s it

Noun

tato m (plural tatos, feminine tata, feminine plural tatas)

1. (colloquial) big brother

Further reading

• “tato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tatu

Etymology

Borrowed from English tattoo, from a Polynesian language.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈtoʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧to

Noun

tatô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. tattoo

   Synonym: (Batangas) pika

Derived terms

• itato
• magpatato
• magtato
• patatuan
• tatuan

 

See also

• tatak

Further reading

• “tato”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “tato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ternate

tato

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.to]

Noun

tato

1. any of several fish among the triggerfish (Balistidae) and the filefish (Monacanthidae)

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Welsh

Etymology

Abbreviation of pytato, from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtatɔ/

Noun

tato f pl

1. (South Wales) plural of taten

Synonyms

• tatws

Derived terms

• (South Wales) tato newi (“new potatoes”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tato

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tato	dato	nhato	thato

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.