Cato

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.təʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia.

Cato

1. (rare) A male given name from Latin.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Pike County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas.
   3. A township in Montcalm County, Michigan.
   4. An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri.
   5. A town and village in Cayuga County, New York.
   6. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

From French Catherine. Used as a matronymic.

Cato

1. A surname from French.

• Cato Ridge

• Toca, coat, cota, ATOC, taco, TACO, octa-, octa, Cota

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *katō, related to catus (“intelligent”) with individualizing suffix -on- (< PIE *-e/on-, the "Στράβων" suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.t̪o]
• Homophone: cato

Catō m sg (genitive Catōnis); third declension

1. A cognomen, particularly a branch of the gens Porcia.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Căto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
    
• “Cato”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Căto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 276/1.
• “Catō” on page 286/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

From Latin Cato.

Cato

1. a male given name popular in the 1970s and 1980s