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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin flātus. Doublet of fiato.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfla.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: flà‧to
Noun
flato m (plural flati)
- flatus
- fart
- burp
- flatulence
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Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. Frequentative of flō through its past participle, flātus.
Pronunciation
Verb
flātō (present infinitive flātāre, perfect active flātāvī, supine flātātum); first conjugation
- to blow
Conjugation
Descendants
Verb
flātō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of flō
References
- “flato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- flato in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- flato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin flātus.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -atu
- Hyphenation: fla‧to
Noun
flato m (plural flatos)
- (medicine) flatus (expulsion of gas through the anus)
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin flātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflato/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: fla‧to
Noun
flato m (plural flatos)
- flatulence, flatus (gas generated in the digestive tract)
- Synonyms: aire, flatulencia
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