rato
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)
- Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)
Anagrams[edit]
'Are'are[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato
References[edit]
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
Catalan[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos)
- (Castilianism) moment
- Synonym: estona
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
rato
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably of Romance origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato (accusative singular raton, plural ratoj, accusative plural ratojn)
Derived terms[edit]
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos)
- mouse
- (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
- saury (Scomberesox saurus)
Related terms[edit]
- rata (“rat”)
References[edit]
- “rraton” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “rato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “rato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “rato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “rata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato
References[edit]
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Ido[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato (plural rati)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ratus, perfect passive participle of reor (“to deem, judge”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rato (feminine rata, masculine plural rati, feminine plural rate)
- (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
- (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)
- (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato
Further reading[edit]
- rato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ratō
References[edit]
- “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.
Old High German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.
Noun[edit]
rato m
Descendants[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -atu
- Hyphenation: ra‧to
Etymology 1[edit]
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.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)
- rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)
- mouse (any rodent of the genus Mus)
- Synonym: (Brazil) camundongo
- (computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
- Synonym: (Brazil) mouse
- burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)
Derived terms[edit]
- arroz-de-rato
- jogo de gato e rato
- ninho de rato
- orelha-de-rato
- ratão (augmentative)
- ratazinha (diminutive)
- ratinho (diminutive)
- rato almiscareiro
- rato de biblioteca
- rato-do-campo
- rato-toupeira
- rato-veadeiro
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos)
- (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
rato
Further reading[edit]
- “rato” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See rata, the modern term.
Noun[edit]
rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)
Further reading[edit]
- “rato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “rato” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.
Ternate[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rato (Jawi راتو)
References[edit]
- 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
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