pato

Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.

pato (uncountable)

1. The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.

• POTA, atop

pato

1. cat

• Ogawa, Naoyoshi (2003) English-Favorlang vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, →ISBN, →OCLC

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpa.to]
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

páto (Basahan spelling ᜉᜆᜓ)

1. duck

   Synonym: itik

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

• Hyphenation: pa‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpa.t̪o]

páto (Badlit spelling ᜉᜆᜓ)

1. a duck; any member of the ducks form taxon in the family "Anatidae"

   Synonym: itik

• atop, otap, tapo, taop

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

pato

1. duck

Inherited from Spanish pato (“duck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/, [ˈpa.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato

1. duck

• → Tausug: patu'

• IPA^(key): [ˈpato]

pato f

1. vocative singular of pata

From Latin patella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato (accusative singular paton, plural patoj, accusative plural patojn)

1. pan

From Proto-Finnic *pato, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pada-w.^[1] Cognates include Erzya падо (pado).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑto/, [ˈpɑ̝t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧to

pato

1. dam, dyke/dike (structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or a part of it)
2. weir, fishweir

   Synonyms: kalapato, lohipato

• “pato”, 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 3 July 2023

• paot

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pato, borrowed from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck; drake

   Synonyms: lavanco, parro, parrulo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pato”, 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), “pato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

pato

1. duck

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

pato

1. duck

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.to/, [ˈpɐto]
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato

1. duck

Borrowed from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).

Cognate with Old Spanish pato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck (any aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

   Synonym: ãade

2. (strictly) drake (male duck)

• Fala: patu
• Galician: pato
• Portuguese: pato (see there for further descendants)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck (any aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

   Synonyms: (Trás-os-Montes) parro, parrolo

2. (strictly) drake (male duck)
3. (Brazil, figuratively) a naive person

Borrowed from Romanian pat (“bed”).

pato m (plural patura)

1. bed

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”). Cognate of Tagalog pato.

pato

1. duck

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَّطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بَت (bat, “duck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpa.t̪o]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck, drake

   Synonym: ánade

   Hypernym: anseriforme

   Coordinate terms: ánsar, barnacla, cisne, ganso, oca, porrón, serreta

2. (vulgar, slang, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Panama) homosexual, faggot

   Synonyms: marica, marico, maricón, puto

• “pato”, 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

From -pata (“to get”).

• Audio (Kenya):

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pato class V (plural mapato class VI)

1. acquisition
2. achievement
3. income, earning, revenue

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpaː.t̪o], (nonstandard) /ˈpatoʔ/ [ˈpaː.t̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -ato, (nonstandard) -atoʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧to

pato or patò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜆᜓ)

1. duck

• → Tausug: patu'

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpatoʔ/ [ˈpaː.t̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -atoʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧to

patò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜆᜓ)

1. playing piece (in games such as tantsing).

• “pato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• otap

pato

1. break out

Borrowed from Portuguese pato.

pato

1. duck

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t̪o/

pato

1. (transitive) to strike (with an instrument)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[3], Pacific linguistics