mato

From French marteau.

mato

1. hammer

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

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

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• IPA^(key): /bãˈto/

mato

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

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

• 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 Wikipedia has an article on:

mato

Wikipedia ^eo

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.

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

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

1. mat

• musmato (“mousepad”)

From Proto-Finnic *mato, probably an old loan from an Indo-Iranian language.^[1]

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

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”)

• “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

• moat, omat

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/

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

mato m (plural matos)

1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
2. brushwood

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Rhymes: -ato

mato (plural mati)

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

• tapiso

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

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

mato

1. snake

   jaadukas mato ― venomous snake

2. (in compounds) worm

• (snake): maahiin, (obsolete) käärme
• (worm): matokkain

• 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

mato

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

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

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

mato (genitive mavon, partitive matuo)

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

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

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mãto

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

mãto

1. genitive singular of mãtas (“measure”)

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

mato

1. eye (organ)

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mã́.tò/

mátò (plural mátòzhì)

1. car

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

• matu

mato

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

mato

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mato

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• Audio (Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

From mata.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

mato (plural âmato)

1. proverb, adage

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

mato m (plural matos)

1. bushes

From Latin macto

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• “mato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Compare Italian matto

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

1. crazy, mad
2. fake, abnormal

Borrowed from Portuguese mato.

mato m (plural mati)

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

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

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

mato

1. snake

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t̪o/

mato

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

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