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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈta.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: con‧tà‧to
Participle
contato (feminine contata, masculine plural contati, feminine plural contate)
- past participle of contare
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin contāctus.
Noun
contato m (plural contatos) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- contact
- touch
- connection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
contato (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- first-person singular present indicative of contatar
Further reading
- “contato”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “contato”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “contato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “contato”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “contato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025