tata

English

Etymology 1

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

Interjection

tata

1. Alternative form of ta ta

Etymology 2

Probably ultimately from baby-talk and related to teat, tit. Possibly borrowed through French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

Noun

tata (plural tatas)

1. (slang) Alternative form of ta-ta (“breast”)

Anagrams

• atta

Aeka

Noun

tata

1. paternal aunt

References

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

Amanab

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑtɑ/

Noun

tata

1. pig

References

• Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /taˈta/,

Noun

tatá

1. (uncommon) door

   Synonyms: puwerta, pinto

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Compare tatay.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtata/,
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

tata

1. a familiar address to one's father

Etymology 2

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /taˈta/,
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

tata

1. (childish) a familiar address to a child

Etymology 3

Compare tastas

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtataʔ/,
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

tata

1. to wear out

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

tata

1. father.

Central Tarahumara

Noun

tata

1. father

Chavacano

Noun

tata

1. father

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tata (animate)

1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1:

     Taita. padre delos niños. tata.

     Taita. the children's father. tata.

   • Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.

     Tata. por tayta,padre

     Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

Synonyms

• tahtli

References

• Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tata

1. elder sister

French

Etymology

Expressive variant of tante (“aunt”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (childish) auntie

   Les enfants, aujourd’hui on va voir tata !

   Kids, today we're going to see auntie!

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

Further reading

• “tata”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Fula

Noun

tata o (plural tataaji ɗi) (ka)

1. (Pular, Pulaar) tata (a defensive city wall)

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Guaraní

Noun

tata

1. fire

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

tata (plural taták)

1. (possibly offensive) uncle, old man, fogey (used to speak of or address old men humorously or disparagingly)
2. (informal, dialectal) father, dad

Declension

Further reading

• tata in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tata, from Javanese ꦠꦠ (tata), from Old Javanese tatā (“arrangement, ordering; fixed order, rule”), from Pali tathā (“in this way”), from Sanskrit तथा (tathā, “in that manner”). Doublet of titi.

• Semantic loan from Dutch ordening (“tidying up, bringing in order”).
• Semantic loan from English system.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tata (first-person possessive tataku, second-person possessive tatamu, third-person possessive tatanya)

1. order
2. arrangement
3. system

Derived terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “tata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: tà‧ta

Noun

tata f (plural tate)

1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
2. big sister

Anagrams

• atta

Javanese

Verb

tata

1. (to put) in an orderly arrangement.

Derived terms

Kituba

Noun

tata

1. father

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tata, from Proto-Indo-European *tata-, ultimately onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk.

Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad and Breton tata, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta), Kamkata-viri tót, tó, Tregami tát, Waigali tati.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/,

Noun

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

1. dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: tatã, tati
  • Megleno-Romanian: tată
  • Romanian: tată (“father, dad”)
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: tuota, teta
  • Italian: tata
    • → Cimbrian: tatta
    • → Mòcheno: tata
  • Neapolitan: tata
• Old Occitan:
  • Old Catalan: taita (“dad”)
    • Catalan: tata (“dad, brother”) (dialectal)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: tat (“grandfather”) (dialectal)
• West Iberian:
  • Portuguese: tatá
  • Old Spanish: taita (“dad”)
    • Spanish: tata, tato, taita

References

• "tata", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tata 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)

Lingala

Noun

tata class 1 (plural batata class 2)

1. father
2. man

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): , (enunciated)
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠæɰtˠæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {tahtah}

Determiner

tata

1. superlative particle; most

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tata/

Etymology 1

From Tamil தாத்தா (tāttā).

Noun

tata

1. grandfather

   Synonym: granper

Etymology 2

From kaka, from French caca.

Noun

tata

1. (usually childish) poo, excrement

Verb

tata (medial form tata)

1. (usually childish) to poo, defecate

Mbyá Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní tata.

Noun

tata

1. fire

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

tata m

1. father

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “tata” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tata.

Noun

tata

1. father, dad

Synonyms

• papa, pate

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish tata.

Noun

tata

1. father

Phuthi

Verb

-tata

1. to hurry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ta‧ta

Noun

tata m pers

1. (informal) dad

   Synonyms: tato, ojciec

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• tata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Quechua

Noun

tata

1. mister
2. father

Derived terms

• jatun tata

Raga

Etymology

Compare Tagalog tatay.

Noun

tata

1. father

Salar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tata

1. to gather

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “tata”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 46

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâta/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tȁta m (Cyrillic spelling та̏та)

1. dad, daddy

   Synonym: ćaća

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

tata (Cyrillic spelling тата)

1. genitive/accusative singular of tat

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâːtḁ/

Noun

tata m

1. dad, father

Declension

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtata/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ta‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, Latin America, Philippines) daddy; dad, a term used by children for their father
2. (colloquial) nanny

   Synonyms: niñera, criada

3. (colloquial, Chile) grandfather, a term used by children for their grandfather

   Synonym: abuelo

Coordinate terms

• nana

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Feminine form of tato.

Noun

tata f (plural tatas, masculine tato, masculine plural tatos)

1. (colloquial) big sister

Etymology 3

From teta.

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Verb

-tata (infinitive kutata)

1. to tangle

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Conversive: -tatua (“to untangle, to disentangle”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • matata (“trouble, problems”)
  • utata (“complication”)

Noun

tata

1. plural of utata

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Possibly borrowed from Philippine Spanish tata (“daddy”), compare tatay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtata/,
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tata (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)

1. (archaic) term of address used for one's father

   Synonyms: tatay, tatang, itay, tay, ama, amang, papa

2. (archaic) respectful term of address used for an older man

   Synonyms: manong, mang, mama

3. (dialectal) term of address used for an uncle

   Synonyms: tiyo, tito

Coordinate terms

• nana

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtataʔ/,

• IPA^(key): /taˈtaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tatà or tatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)

1. small, thin cut made on the edge of something to indicate a mark or sign (as in measuring or counting)

   Synonyms: gatgat, gatla, tiyab, gatlang

2. cut used as a foothold in climbing (made on the trunk of a tree, on a steep rock, etc.)

   Synonyms: bakat, uka, kutab

3. (obsolete) act of splitting by marking (as when one splits the husk to make a coconut a drinking vessel)
4. (obsolete) tree with several cut marks

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈta/,
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tatá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)

1. (obsolete) shriek of a mouse

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈtaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)

1. (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜆ, corresponding to "ta"

See also

Further reading

• “tata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 156: “Chillar) Tata (pc) el raton”
  • page 564: “T) Tata (pc) letra que vſa el ſu. A.b.c .|. tata yaon .|. ᜆ. gumava ca dito nang tata ſa iniong ſulat, haz aqui vna .t. de bueſtra eſcritura, ſaſa yari indi tata. s. es eſta t.”

Tarifit

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tata f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵜⴰ, plural tatiwin)

1. chameleon

Ternate

Etymology 1

May be the same as the second etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tata

1. a splint

Etymology 2

May be the same as the first etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tata (Jawi تاتة)

1. a kind of cylindrical basket generally made of bamboo strips, historically used to transport fruit and betel nut

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

Tetum

Verb

tata

1. to bite

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

Numeral

tata

1. one

Synonyms

• taha

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *te-qa-ta.

Determiner

tata

1. (alienable, definite) my

Usage notes

• tata is commonly used in place of taku to arouse the listener’s sympathy about some predicament that one is in.

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tata. Cognates include Tuvaluan tata and Samoan tata.

Noun

tata

1. A kind of fish trap, consisting of a wooden frame that can be closed by pulling a rope.

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 375

Yogad

Etymology

Akin to Ibanag tadday.

Numeral

tatá

1. one

Yoruba

Etymology

Of ideophonic origin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tā.tā/

Noun

tata

1. grasshopper

   Synonyms: aláǹpara, ẹlẹ́ǹgà, edólo, kòkòrò