tato

tato

1. (Old Chamorro) three (in reference to living beings).

   Synonym: tres

• IPA^(key): [ˈtato]

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tato

1. inflection of tento:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

• “tato”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “tato”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

tato

1. (Pulaar dialect, with human nouns) three

   rewɓe tato

   three women

• tati

Onomatopoeic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

tato m (plural tatos)

1. stutterer (one who stutters)

   Synonym: gago

tato (feminine tata, masculine plural tatos, feminine plural tatas)

1. stuttering

   Synonym: gago

2. nasal (voice)

   Synonym: nasal

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tato”, 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), “tato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From English tattoo, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

tato (plural tato-tato)

1. tattoo

   Synonym: rajah

• tatu (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “tato” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Baby talk, related to tata (“nanny”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: tà‧to

tato m (plural tati) (regional, childish)

1. Form of address for an older male, especially:
   1. one's father, daddy, papa
   2. an older brother
   3. any man, especially if young, taking care of the child

• tato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“that”)

tato

1. masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“he, it, that”)

tato f

1. armadillo

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.tɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧to

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tato m pers

1. (endearing) dad

   Synonyms: tata, ojciec

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tato m pers

1. vocative singular of tata

• tato in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tato in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tacto

Borrowed from Latin tāctus (“sense of touch”), from tāctus (“touched”), perfect passive participle of tangō (“to touch”).

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ta‧to

tato m (plural tatos)

1. the sense of touch

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit तप्त (tapta).

tato (feminine tati, plural tate)

1. warm

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taptá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 323
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “tató¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 277
• Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Other characteristic features of Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project‎^[1], Manchester, archived from the original on 28 August 2021
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “tat/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 348

A contraction of está todo (bien) ("everything's good").

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ta‧to

tato

1. (slang, Dominican Republic) alright, that is all, OKAY, that’s it

tato m (plural tatos, feminine tata, feminine plural tatas)

1. (colloquial) big brother

• “tato”, 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

• tatu

Borrowed from English tattoo, from a Polynesian language.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈtoʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧to

tatô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. tattoo

   Synonym: (Batangas) pika

• tatak

• “tato”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “tato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.to]

tato

1. any of several fish among the triggerfish (Balistidae) and the filefish (Monacanthidae)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Abbreviation of pytato, from English potato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtatɔ/

tato f pl

1. (South Wales) plural of taten

• tatws

• (South Wales) tato newi (“new potatoes”)