rato

rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)

1. Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”).

• -ator, aort-, oart, Rota, taro, Orta, Roat, Taro, rota

rato

1. sun

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Borrowed from Spanish rato.

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

rato m (plural ratos)

1. (Castilianism) moment

   Synonym: estona

rato

1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Probably of Romance origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato/

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ra‧to

rato (accusative singular raton, plural ratoj, accusative plural ratojn)

1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted.^[1] Compare English rat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato̝/

rato m (plural ratos)

1. mouse
2. (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
3. saury (Scomberesox saurus)

• rata (“rat”)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rraton”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rato”, 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), “rato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French râteau.

• IPA^(key): /ɣato/

rato

1. rake

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato/
• Rhymes: -ato

rato (plural rati)

1. rat

Borrowed from Latin ratus, perfect passive participle of reor (“to deem, judge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: rà‧to

rato (feminine rata, masculine plural rati, feminine plural rate)

1. (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
2. (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)

   Antonyms: invalido, irrito

3. (law, rare) synonym of stipulato

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

• Rota, Taro, Torà, arto, atro, rota, taro, tarò, torà

ratō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ratus

• “rato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "rato", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

rato

1. spread, distributed
2. available

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “rato”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 381
• “rato” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

rato m

1. rat

• Middle High German: ratte, rate
  • German: Ratte
  • Luxembourgish: Rat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rāto

1. genitive plural of rāt

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ra‧to

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• ratto (obsolete)

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)
2. mouse (any rodent of the genus Mus)

   Synonyms: (archaic) mure, (Brazil) camundongo

3. (computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Brazil) mouse

4. burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)

   Synonyms: gatuno, ladrão

From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

rato m (plural ratos)

1. (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)

   Synonyms: bocado, pouco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rato

1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

• “rato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈrato/ [ˈra.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ra‧to

From Latin raptus.

rato m (plural ratos)

1. a while, bit (a short period of time)
   • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     Durante tres meses, en los ratos libres que le deja el periódico y su labor clandestina escribe un poema de más de seiscientos versos en donde se sumerge en el misterio y en el martirio de los poetas menores.

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2. time

   Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.

   He/She had a good time watching the movie.

   Me hizo pasar un mal rato.

   I had a terrible time because of him/her.

See rata, the modern term.

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

1. (archaic) male rat

• “rato”, 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
• “rato” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.to/

rato (Jawi راتو)

1. a gust of wind
2. a storm

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh