gato

Borrowed from French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

• Rhymes: -ato

• Hyphenation: ga‧to

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 528:

     Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures

     And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice

• Gato

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “gato”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “gato” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From French gâteau.

• IPA^(key): /ɡato/

gato

1. cake

Borrowed from French gateau.

• IPA^(key): /ɡàː.tôː/

gā̀tô m (possessed form gā̀tôn)

1. (Niger) cake

   Synonym: (Nigeria) kyât

From Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

gato m (plural gatos)

1. cat

From dygato, from gdygato.

gato

1. recently

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gato”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gato”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

gato

1. nominative singular masculine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattum; compare also catta, possibly of ultimately Afroasiatic origin. See the etymology at cat for further details.

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ga‧to

• Audio (Brazil):

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gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat (domestic cat: Felis silvestris catus)

   Synonyms: (formal designation) gato-doméstico, gato caseiro

   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:

     [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.

     [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.

2. (by extension) feline, felid, cat

   Synonyms: felino, felídeo

3. one of a number of utensils made of iron or similar material used to fix objects
4. excess flesh on the upper part of riding animals
5. (colloquial) very handsome person

   Synonyms: pão, bom

6. (Brazil, colloquial) an illegal connection to use electricity or watch pay TV for free

   Synonym: gambiarra

7. (Brazil, colloquial) a petty thief

   Synonyms: gatuno, trombadinha

8. (Brazil, colloquial) truck driver who rents boias-frias to work on farming
9. (Alentejo) wineskin
10. (Trás-os-Montes) error, mistake

    Synonyms: erro, engano

11. (Trás-os-Montes) lie (deliberately false statement)

    Synonym: mentira

• Annobonese: gatu
• Kabuverdianu: gátu
• → Kimbundu: ngatu
• →? Gulf Arabic: قطو (gaṭu)

gato (feminine gata, masculine plural gatos, feminine plural gatas, comparable, comparative mais gato, superlative o mais gato or gatíssimo, diminutive gatinho, augmentative gatão)

1. (Brazil, informal, of a person) physically attractive

   Synonyms: belo, bonito, giro

   Ela é muito gata. ― She is very beautiful.

• “gato” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

gato

1. first-person singular present indicative of gatar

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡato/ [ˈɡa.t̪o]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ga‧to

Inherited from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat, Italian gatto, Portuguese gato). See cat for more.

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat (unspecified gender)

   Synonyms: felino, félido

   Hyponyms: azul ruso, Gato de Cheshire, gato montés, gato persa, gato atigrado, gato colorado, gato exótico (“Exotic Shorthair”), siamés, devon rex (“Devon Rex”), korat (“Korat”), cartujo (“Chartreux”), gato de Van (“Turkish van”), abisinio (“Abyssinian cat”), Manx, gato Manx, gato de Borneo, gato del desierto, gato Bombay (“Bombay cat”), gato común europeo (“European shorthair”), rex alemán (“German Rex”), gato himalayo (“Himalayan cat”), bosque de Noruega (“Norwegian forest cat”)

2. tomcat, gib (male cat)
3. (Mexico) servant

   Synonyms: achichincle, servidor, sirviente, mozo, criado

4. C-clamp
5. jack (mechanical device)
6. (Mexico) tic-tac-toe

   Synonym: tres en línea

7. (colloquial) Madrilenian (a person from Madrid)

   Synonym: madrileño

8. (Costa Rica) person with blue or green eyes

Borrowed from French gâteau.

gato m (plural gatos)

1. (Costa Rica) rectangular cake made of two layers joined by jam in the middle

Back-formation from gatillar.^[1][2]

gato m (plural gatos)

1. (obsolete, slang, Argentina) whoremonger
2. (vulgar, slang, Argentina) a prostitute woman

• “gato”, 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

• gota, toga

• gat (Dialectal)

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.to/
• Hyphenation: gàto

gato m (plural gati)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡatɔ/

• gadawo

gato

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of gadael

gato

1. soft mutation of cato