patt

patt

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of pattern.
   • 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 305:

     Cont in patt until work measures 10cm (4in). Break off B and join in C.

• TATP, attP, tapt

From Proto-Finnic *patto. Cognate to Votic pattu (“sin”), dialectal Finnish patto (“crime”) and Karelian patto (“evil, mad”).

patt (genitive patu, partitive pattu)

1. sin

Ultimately from Italian patta (“stalemate [in chess]”).

patt (genitive pati, partitive patti)

1. (chess) stalemate - position where a player has no legal moves, but the king is not mate, resulting in a remis (draw)

Borrowed from French pat.

• Audio:

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patt (strong nominative masculine singular patter, not comparable)

1. (chess) in stalemate (said of a situation where one player is not in check but still has no legal move)
2. deadlocked

• patt setzen

• Patt

• “patt” in Duden online
• “patt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Danish pat, from German patt, from Italian patto.

• IPA^(key): /pʰaht/
• Rhymes: -aht

patt (indeclinable, predicate-only)

1. (chess) in a state of stalemate; not able to move any piece without compromising the king

patt n (genitive singular patts, no plural)

1. (chess) stalemate

   Synonym: pattstaða

Borrowed from Sicilian pattu and/or Italian patto, from Latin pactum.

• IPA^(key): /pat/

patt m (plural pattijiet)

1. pact, agreement

patt c

1. (chess) stalemate