mato

From French marteau.

mato

1. hammer

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈma.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈma.to]

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• IPA^(key): /bãˈto/

mato

1. cassava dough (resulted from grating and washing the cassava).

• ẽtaro
• ẽtarʉ
• pedico
• jajʉóba
• jajʉórʉ
• pediba
• pedicũ
• tuaro
• caroyʉ
• tuyʉ

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "mato", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

From German Matte, Italian matta, English mat, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Additional cognates include French natte, Norwegian Bokmål matte, Swedish matta, Finnish matto, Portuguese and Spanish mata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato (accusative singular maton, plural matoj, accusative plural matojn)

1. mat

• musmato (“mousepad”)

From Proto-Finnic *mato, probably an old loan from an Indo-Iranian language.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧to

mato

1. worm (animal)
2. (colloquial) maggot (soft, legless larva)
3. (colloquial) maggot (worthless person)
4. (informal) tilde

   Synonym: aaltoviiva

5. (computing) worm (a type of malware that spreads between computers autonomously, i.e. without user intervention)
6. (dialectal) synonym of käärme (“snake”)

• “mato”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• moat, omat

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/

From a substrate language. Compare Portuguese mato and Spanish mata.

mato m (plural matos)

1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
2. brushwood

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

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

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Rhymes: -ato

mato (plural mati)

1. mat, matting (of straw or other materials)

• tapiso

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑd̥o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato

1. snake

   jaadukas mato ― venomous snake

2. (in compounds) worm

Declension of mato (type 4/koivu, t- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	mato	maot
genitive	maon	mattoin, matoloin
partitive	mattoa	matoja, matoloja
illative	mattoo	mattoi, matoloihe
inessive	maos	maois, matolois
elative	maost	maoist, matoloist
allative	maolle	maoille, matoloille
adessive	maol	maoil, matoloil
ablative	maolt	maoilt, matoloilt
translative	maoks	maoiks, matoloiks
essive	matonna, mattoon	matoinna, matoloinna, mattoin, matoloin
exessive1)	matont	matoint, matoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (snake): maahiin, (obsolete) käärme
• (worm): matokkain

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 9

mato

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

Regional variants of mato

North Karelian (Viena)	mato
South Karelian (Tver)	mado

From Proto-Finnic *mato. Cognates include Finnish mato and Veps mado.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato (genitive mavon, partitive matuo)

1. (North Karelian) worm
2. (North Karelian, dialectal) synonym of kiärmis (“snake”)

Viena Karelian declension of mato (type 1/tyttö, t-v gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mato	mavot
genitive	mavon	matojen
partitive	matuo	matoja
illative	matoh	matoloih
inessive	mavošša	matoloissa
elative	mavošta	matoloista
adessive	mavolla	matoloilla
ablative	mavolta	matoloilta
translative	mavokši	matoloiksi
essive	matona	matoloina
comitative	—	matoloineh
abessive	mavotta	matoloitta

Possessive forms of mato
1st person	matoni
2nd person	matoš
3rd person	matoh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “mato”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

• matȟó

mato

1. bear (animal)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːtɔ]

mãto

1. third-person singular/plural present of matyti (“to see”)

mãto

1. genitive singular of mãtas (“measure”)

From Proto-Polynesian *mato (“precipice”).

mato

1. deep swamp, deep valley

• matomato (“lush, verdant”)

• “mato” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mato

1. eye (organ)

• mato aia
• matoari
• mato kaki
• mato-mato
• mato-matoi

• Kamus Minangkabau - Indonesia [Minangkabau - Indonesian Dictionary]‎^[5] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, 1985, page 191

• Borrowed from Hausa mota, ultimately from English motor, motorcar'
• Compare with Yoruba mọ́tò

• IPA^(key): /mã́.tò/

mátò (plural mátòzhì)

1. car

   Mátò na wáncí na à nì kíǹ. ― The big car will have an accident.

• matu

mato

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

mato

1. masculine nominative singular of mata (“dead; thought”)

• Audio (Portugal):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

From mata.

mato m (plural matos)

1. (usually uncountable) forest; bush; jungle; woods (uncultivated area covered in wild plants)

   Synonym: (more formal) mata

2. (usually uncountable) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

   Synonym: capim

• → Saramaccan: mátu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• “mato”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “mato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

mato (plural âmato)

1. proverb, adage

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/ [ˈma.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ma‧to

mato m (plural matos)

1. bushes

From Latin macto

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• “mato”, 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

Compare Italian matto

mato (feminine singular mata, masculine plural mati, feminine plural mate)

1. crazy, mad
2. fake, abnormal

Borrowed from Portuguese mato.

mato m (plural mati)

1. (Brazil) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato

1. snake

Declension of mato (type II/võrkko, t- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mato	maod
genitive	mao	matojõ, matoi
partitive	mattoa	matoitõ, matoi
illative	mattosõ, matto	matoisõ
inessive	maoz	matoiz
elative	maossõ	matoissõ
allative	maolõ	matoilõ
adessive	maollõ	matoillõ
ablative	maoltõ	matoiltõ
translative	maossi	matoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mato”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Possibly from East Makian matuo (“old (of people)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t̪o/

mato

1. (stative) to be old (of people)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics