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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Georgian ტატო (ṭaṭo) or Spanish Tato.
Proper noun
Tato (plural Tatos)
- A male given name from Georgian.
- A male given name from Spanish.
Galician
Etymology
From tato (“stutterer”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tato
- a surname
References
- “Tato” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. 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.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtato/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: Ta‧to
Proper noun
el Tato m
- a male given name
- a name used in various expressions, used to express that nobody does a certain thing
No le va a votar ni el Tato.- Not a single person is going to vote for him.
- (literally, “Not even "the Tato" is going to vote for him.”)
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