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English

Etymology 1

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Contraction

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Alternative forms

• thatta

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (???, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

   • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books.

     The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *?anta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at.ta/

Pronoun

atta

1. you, thou (second person singular subject personal pronoun)

See also

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta

Verb

atta (active)

1. (intransitive) to be born
2. (transitive) to live in (a location)

Inflection

Choctaw

Verb

atta

1. to live

Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Italian

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite ???????????? (attas), Gothic ???????????????? (atta), Old Church Slavonic ????? (ot?c?) and Ancient Greek ???? (átta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?at.ta/, [?ät??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?at.ta/, [??t???]

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: tatà (archaic)

References

• atta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• atta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• aththa, atha, eththa

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *att? (“father”).

Noun

atta m

1. father

Descendants

• North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
• West Frisian: heit

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ata, ?ta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *aht?u, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Numeral

?tta

1. eight

Descendants

• Swedish: åtta

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian

Noun

atta f

1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish

Noun

atta

1. singular locative of at

Yagara

Pronoun

atta

1. I

References

• State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.

English

Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn.t?/

Noun

anta (plural antae or antas)

1. (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Related terms

• in antis

Anagrams

• AANT, Anat, Nata, Tana, anat., naat, taan, tana

Galician

Alternative forms

• ante

Etymology

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?anta?/

Noun

anta m (plural antas)

1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark

   Synonyms: arca, forno

2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls

   Synonym: chanto

Derived terms

• Anta
• Antas
• Antas de Ulla
• Antela
• Antelo

References

• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hausa

Noun

ant?? f (possessed form antàr?)

1. Alternative spelling of hanta

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.ta/

Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

anta f (plural ante)

1. door (of furniture)
2. shutter (of window)
3. sash (of window)
4. panel

Synonyms

• sportello
• pannello

Etymology 2

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

Noun

anta m pl (plural only)

1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

Anagrams

• nata
• tana

Japanese

Romanization

anta

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

Verb

anta

1. give

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

an- +? ta; from German [Term?]

Verb

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

1. to assume, presume
2. to accept, approve

Derived terms

• antagelig, antakelig
• antagelse, antakelse

References

• “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (anta).

Noun

anta m

1. end
2. goal
3. top

Declension

Derived terms

• k?ranta (“final sound of word”)

Noun

anta n

1. intestine, tharm

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.ta/, /???.t?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.t?/
• Hyphenation: an?ta

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin ant?s, antae pl.

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

1. (architecture) anta
2. dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)

   Synonym: dólmen

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (lamta).

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

   Synonym: tapir

Noun

anta m, f (plural antas)

1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person

Spanish

Etymology

From ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?anta/, [?ãn?.t?a]

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

1. female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

   Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

Further reading

• “anta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

Pronunciation

Verb

anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

1. to suppose, to presume, to guess

2. to accept an offer

3. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• antagning
• antagande

References

• anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

• anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• anat, anat.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.?ta/, /??an.ta/

Noun

antá or anta

1. rancidity; rancid odor

Derived terms