gato

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Bambara

Etymology

Borrowed from French gâteau.

Noun

gato

  1. cake

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 528:
      Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures
      And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice

Derived terms

References

  • “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “gato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “gato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “gato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French gâteau.

Pronunciation

Noun

gato

  1. cake

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from French gateau.

Pronunciation

Noun

gā̀tô m (possessed form gā̀tôn)

  1. (Niger) cake
    Synonym: (Nigeria) kyât

Ladino

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

Noun

gato m (Latin spelling, plural gatos)

  1. cat

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From dygato, from gdygato.

Adverb

gato

  1. recently

Related terms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gato”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gato”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French gâteau.

Noun

gato

  1. cake

References

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Adjective

gato

  1. nominative singular masculine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

Portuguese

gato siamês

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus; compare also catta, possibly of ultimately Afroasiatic origin. See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -atu
  • Hyphenation: ga‧to
  • Audio (Brazil)(file)

Noun

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat (domestic cat: Felis silvestris catus)
    Synonyms: (formal designation) gato-doméstico, gato caseiro
    • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:
      [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.
      the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.
  2. (by extension) feline, felid, cat
    Synonyms: felino, felídeo
  3. one of a number of utensils made of iron or similar material used to fix objects
  4. excess flesh on the upper part of riding animals
  5. (colloquial) very handsome person
    Synonyms: pão, bom
  6. (Brazil, colloquial) an illegal connection to use electricity or watch pay TV for free
    Synonym: gambiarra
  7. (Brazil, colloquial) a petty thief
    Synonyms: gatuno, trombadinha
  8. (Brazil, colloquial) truck driver who rents boias-frias to work on farming
  9. (Alentejo) wineskin
  10. (Trás-os-Montes) error, mistake
    Synonyms: erro, engano
  11. (Trás-os-Montes) lie (deliberately false statement)
    Synonym: mentira
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Annobonese: gatu
  • Kabuverdianu: gátu
  • →? Gulf Arabic: قطو (gaṭu)

Adjective

gato (feminine gata, masculine plural gatos, feminine plural gatas, comparable, comparative mais gato, superlative o mais gato or gatíssimo, diminutive gatinho, augmentative gatão)

  1. (Brazil, informal, of a person) physically attractive
    Synonyms: belo, bonito, giro
    Ela é muito gata. ― She is very beautiful.

Further reading

  • “gato” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

Verb

gato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gatar

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French gâteau.

Noun

gato

  1. cake

References

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡato/
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: ga‧to

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat, Italian gatto, Portuguese gato). See cat for more.

Noun

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

  1. cat (unspecified gender)
    Synonyms: felino, félido
    Hyponyms: azul ruso, Gato de Cheshire, gato montés, gato persa, gato atigrado, gato colorado, gato exótico (“Exotic Shorthair”), siamés, devon rex (“Devon Rex”), korat (“Korat”), cartujo (“Chartreux”), gato de Van (“Turkish van”), abisinio (“Abyssinian cat”), Manx, gato Manx, gato de Borneo, gato del desierto, gato Bombay (“Bombay cat”), gato común europeo (“European shorthair”), rex alemán (“German Rex”), gato himalayo (“Himalayan cat”), bosque de Noruega (“Norwegian forest cat”)
  2. tomcat, gib (male cat)
  3. (Mexico) servant
    Synonyms: achichincle, servidor, sirviente, mozo, criado
  4. C-clamp
  5. jack (mechanical device)
  6. (Mexico) tic-tac-toe
    Synonym: tres en línea
  7. (colloquial) Madrilenian (a person from Madrid)
    Synonym: madrileño
  8. (Costa Rica) person with blue or green eyes
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gâteau.

Noun

gato m (plural gatos)

  1. (Costa Rica) rectangular cake made of two layers joined by jam in the middle

Etymology 3

Back-formation from gatillar.

Noun

gato m (plural gatos)

  1. (obsolete, slang, Argentina) whoremonger
  2. (vulgar, slang, Argentina) a prostitute woman

References

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Further reading

Anagrams

Venetian

Dei gati

Alternative forms

  • gat (Dialectal)

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa.to/
  • Hyphenation: gàto

Noun

gato m (plural gati)

  1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

gato

  1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of gadael

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gato ato ngato unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Verb

gato

  1. Soft mutation of cato.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cato gato nghato chato
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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