mato

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French marteau.

Noun

mato

1. hammer

Asturian

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Cubeo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bãˈto/

Noun

mato

1. cassava dough (resulted from grating and washing the cassava).

See also

• ẽtaro
• ẽtarʉ
• pedico
• jajʉóba
• jajʉórʉ
• pediba
• pedicũ
• tuaro
• caroyʉ
• tuyʉ

References

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "mato", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

mato

Wikipedia ^eo

Etymology

From German Matte, Italian matta, English mat, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Additional cognates include French natte, Norwegian Bokmål matte, Swedish matta, Finnish matto, Portuguese and Spanish mata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato (accusative singular maton, plural matoj, accusative plural matojn)

1. mat

Derived terms

• musmato (“mousepad”)

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato, probably an old loan from an Indo-Iranian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/,
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧to

Noun

mato

1. worm (animal)
2. (colloquial) maggot (soft, legless larva)
3. (colloquial) maggot (worthless person)
4. (informal) tilde

   Synonym: aaltoviiva

5. (computing) worm (a type of malware that spreads between computers autonomously, i.e. without user intervention)
6. (dialectal) Synonym of käärme (“snake”)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “mato”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

• moat, omat

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/

Etymology 1

From a substrate language. Compare Portuguese mato and Spanish mata.

Noun

mato m (plural matos)

1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
2. brushwood

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

References

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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

mato (plural mati)

1. mat, matting (of straw or other materials)

See also

• tapiso

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/,
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato

1. snake

   jaadukas mato ― venomous snake

2. (in compounds) worm

Declension

Synonyms

• (snake): maahiin
• (worm): matokkain

Derived terms

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 9

Japanese

Romanization

mato

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato. Cognates include Finnish mato and Veps mado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato (genitive mavon, partitive matuo)

1. (North Karelian) worm
2. (North Karelian, dialectal) Synonym of kiärmis (“snake”)

Declension

References

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “mato”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

mãto

1. third-person singular/plural present of matyti (“to see”)

Noun

mãto

1. genitive singular of mãtas (“measure”)

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

mato

1. eye (organ)

Derived terms

• mato aia
• matoari
• mato kaki
• mato-mato
• mato-matoi

References

• Kamus Minangkabau - Indonesia [Minangkabau - Indonesian Dictionary]‎ (in Chinese), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, 1985, page 191

Nupe

Etymology

• Borrowed from Hausa mota, ultimately from English motor, motorcar'
• Compare with Yoruba mọ́tò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mã́.tò/

Noun

mátò (plural mátòzhì)

1. car

   Mátò na wáncí na à nì kíǹ. ― The big car will have an accident.

Derived terms

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• matu

Verb

mato

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

mato

1. masculine nominative singular of mata (“dead; thought”)

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mato

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Etymology 1

From mata.

Noun

mato m (plural matos)

1. (usually uncountable) forest; bush; jungle; woods (uncultivated area covered in wild plants)

   Synonym: (more formal) mata

2. (usually uncountable) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

   Synonym: capim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ma‧to

Etymology 1

Noun

mato m (plural matos)

1. bushes

Etymology 2

From Latin macto

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Further reading

• “mato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Etymology 1

Compare Italian matto

Adjective

mato (feminine singular mata, masculine plural mati, feminine plural mate)

1. crazy, mad
2. fake, abnormal

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese mato.

Noun

mato m (plural mati)

1. (Brazil) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/,
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato

1. snake

Inflection

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mato”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly from East Makian matuo (“old (of people)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t̪o/

Verb

mato

1. (stative) to be old (of people)

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics