rato

English

Noun

rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)

1. Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)

Anagrams

• -ator, Roat, Rota, Taro, rota, taro

'Are'are

Noun

rato

1. sun

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish rato.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

1. (Castilianism) moment

   Synonym: estona

Etymology 2

Verb

rato

1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

rato

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Etymology

Probably of Romance origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ra‧to

Noun

rato (accusative singular raton, plural ratoj, accusative plural ratojn)

1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)

Derived terms

Galician

Etymology

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted. Compare English rat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato̝/

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

1. mouse
2. (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
3. saury (Scomberesox saurus)

Related terms

• rata (“rat”)

References

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French râteau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣato/

Noun

rato

1. rake

References

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato/
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

rato (plural rati)

1. rat

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratus, perfect passive participle of reor (“to deem, judge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: rà‧to

Adjective

rato (feminine rata, masculine plural rati, feminine plural rate)

1. (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
2. (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)

   Antonyms: invalido, irrito

3. (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato

Further reading

• rato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Rota, Taro, Torà, arto, atro, rota, taro, tarò, torà

Latin

Adjective

ratō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ratus

References

• “rato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rato 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)
• rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

Noun

rato m

1. rat

Descendants

• Middle High German: ratte, rate
  • German: Ratte
  • Luxembourgish: Rat

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ra‧to

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Alternative forms

• ratto (obsolete)

Noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)
2. mouse (any rodent of the genus Mus)

   Synonym: (Brazil) camundongo

3. (computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Brazil) mouse

4. burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)

   Synonyms: gatuno, ladrão

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

1. (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)

   Synonyms: bocado, pouco

Etymology 3

Verb

rato

1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Further reading

• “rato” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ra‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin raptus.

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

1. a while, bit (a short period of time)
   • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     Durante tres meses, en los ratos libres que le deja el periódico y su labor clandestina escribe un poema de más de seiscientos versos en donde se sumerge en el misterio y en el martirio de los poetas menores.

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2. time

   Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.

   He/She had a good time watching the movie.

   Me hizo pasar un mal rato.

   I had a terrible time because of him/her.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See rata, the modern term.

Noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

1. (archaic) male rat

Further reading

• “rato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “rato” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

rato (Jawi راتو)

1. a gust of wind
2. a storm

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh