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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈra.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: pa‧rà‧to
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin parātus (“preparation, provision”, fourth declension)
Noun
parato m (plural parati)
- decorative drape or curtain
- fabric wall covering
- (uncommon, Christianity) vestment
- Synonym: paramento
- (nautical, shipbuilding) wooden beam running transversely above the slipways, supporting a deck for launching a ship
- (nautical) tallow-coated beam for launching or hauling ashore a boat
- (construction) flattened beam over which lizze (stone-slab-transporting sleds) slide, in marble quarries
Derived terms
See also
- lizza (“sled for transporting blocks of stone from a quarry”)
Etymology 2
Participle
parato (feminine parata, masculine plural parati, feminine plural parate)
- past participle of parare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
parātō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of parō
Participle
parātō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of parātus