-ato

• IPA^(key): /ˈato/

-ato

1. See -at-

Borrowed from English -ate, French -ate, Italian -ato, Portuguese -ato/Portuguese -ado/Spanish -ato/Spanish -ado, all from Latin -ātus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈato/

1=n

-ato

1. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a status, jurisdiction or period of office; -ate, -dom, -cy, -ship

   ‎duce (“duke”) + ‎-ato → ‎ducato (“duchy, dukedom”)

   ‎episcoppo (“bishop”) + ‎-ato → ‎episcopato (“bishopric, episcopate”)

   ‎capitano (“captain”) + ‎-ato → ‎capitanato (“captaincy”)

   ‎discipulo (“disciple”) + ‎-ato → ‎discipulato (“discipleship”)

• This suffix is not to be confused with -ata (“-ful”).

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: -à‧to

From Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic *-ātos.

-ato (past participle-forming suffix, feminine -ata, masculine plural -ati, feminine plural -ate)

1. used with a stem to form the past participle of regular -are verbs

-ato m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ati)

1. a rank or office; -ate, -hood, -ship, -cy

   ‎apprendista (“apprentice”) + ‎-ato → ‎apprendistato (“apprenticeship”)

   ‎priore (“prior”, noun) + ‎-ato → ‎priorato (“priorate, office of a prior”)

-ato (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ata, masculine plural -ati, feminine plural -ate)

1. forms adjectives having or resembling the specified thing

   ‎lobo (“lobe”) + ‎-ato → ‎lobato (“lobate, having lobes”)

   ‎palmo (“palm (of the hand)”) + ‎-ato → ‎palmato (“palmate, resembling a palm”)

-ato m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ati)

1. (chemistry) a derivative of a specified element or compound; especially a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ico; -ate

   ‎nitrico (“nitric”) + ‎-ato → ‎nitrato (“nitrate”)

• tao

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.t̪o]

-ātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of -ō (first conjugation)

-ātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of -ātus

Borrowed from Latin -ātus. Compare the inherited doublet -ado.

-ato m (noun-forming suffix, plural -atos)

1. -ship; -ate (rank or office)

   Synonym: -ado

2. -age (place)
3. (chemistry) -ate (derivative of a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ico)

Borrowed from Latin -ātus (past participle suffix). Compare the inherited doublet -ado.

-ato m (noun-forming suffix, plural -atos, feminine -ata, feminine plural -atas)

1. forms an institution from a noun stem

   ‎huérfano (“orphan”) + ‎-ato → ‎orfanato (“orphanage”)

2. forms the corresponding action of a noun

   ‎asesino (“assassin”) + ‎-ato → ‎asesinato (“assassination”)

3. indicates a baby of a specific animal

   ‎ballena (“whale”) + ‎-ato → ‎ballenato (“baby whale”)

4. forms adjectives of quality

   ‎nuevo (“new”) + ‎-ato → ‎novato (“unexperienced”)

5. denotes the office of a noun stem

   ‎cardenal (“(Catholic) cardinal”) + ‎-ato → ‎cardenalato (“cardinalate, office of the cardinal”)

   ‎Fujimori (surname of the former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori) + ‎-ato → ‎fujimorato (“time period when Alberto Fujimori was in office”)

-ato m (noun-forming suffix, plural -atos)

1. (chemistry) -ate (designates a salt or ester related to an acid)

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

• IPA^(key): [-ato]

• -to, -cho (allomorphs)

-ato

1. Forms nouns from adverbs, adverbial verb forms, and postpositions, typically with the sense of ‘one that (is) …’, ‘one that has the quality of …’.

When attaching to a final vowel e, this suffix takes the form -ato, with the first vowel replacing the e; when attaching to i, it takes the form -cho; in all other circumstances it takes the form -to.

From -a (recent/distant past imperfective suffix) +‎ -to (plural verb suffix).

• -kato, -yato (allomorphs)

-ato

1. Forms the plural of the recent past imperfective tense when the arguments of the verb are first- or second-person.

This suffix can cause syllable reduction. The suffix takes the form -kato when the preceding syllable is reducible and has an onset of k, -yato when the preceding syllable ends in i, and -ato in other contexts.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-ato”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 138–140, 213–222
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302