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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.

Noun

pato (uncountable)

1. The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.

Anagrams

• POTA, atop

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat?u/, /?pat??/
• Hyphenation: pa?to

Noun

pátu

1. a duck; any member of the ducks form taxon in the family "Anatidae"

Anagrams

• atop, otap, tapo, taop

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

Noun

pato

1. duck

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish pato (“duck”).

Noun

pato

1. duck

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pato]

Noun

pato f

1. vocative singular of pata

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin patella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pato/
• Hyphenation: pa?to
• Rhymes: -ato
• Audio:

Noun

pato (accusative singular paton, plural patoj, accusative plural patojn)

1. pan

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pato, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?to/, [?p?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -?to
• Syllabification: pa?to

Noun

pato

1. dam, dike

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

• paot

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pato (13th century, Alfonso X), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pat?]

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck; drake

   Synonyms: lavanco, parro, parrulo

References

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

Ingrian

Noun

pato

1. dam

Karao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

Noun

pato

1. duck

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic ????? (pa??), from Arabic ????? (ba??, “duck”), from Persian ??? (bat, “duck”). Cognate with Galician pato, Spanish pato and Swahili bata.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pa.tu/

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck

Related terms

• patinho

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: patu
• Tok Pisin: pato

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian pat (“bed”).

Noun

pato m (plural patura)

1. bed

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (pá??), from Arabic ????? (ba??, “duck”), from Persian ??? (bat, “duck”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck, drake

   Synonym: ánade

   Hypernym: anseriforme

   Coordinate terms: ánsar, barnacla, cisne, ganso, oca, porrón, serreta

2. (vulgar, slang, Antilles, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Puerto Rico) homosexual, faggot

   Synonyms: marica, marico, maricón, puto

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

pato (ma class, plural mapato)

1. acquisition
2. achievement
3. earning

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.t?/

Noun

pato

1. duck (animal)

Related terms

• bibe

Tahitian

Verb

pato

1. break out

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Portuguese pato.

Noun

pato

1. duck

Derived terms

• pato man

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek ????? (paté?) / ????? (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (panta, “way”), ????????????????? (pa?a, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit ????? (páthin)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [p????]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [p?ä??], [p????]
• IPA^(key): /pæ?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [p?æ?], [p????], [p?e??]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [p?a?], [p?æ?]
• Rhymes: -???, -æ?

Noun

path (plural paths)

1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
2. A course taken.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

3. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. A metaphorical course.
5. A method or direction of proceeding.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

6. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.

7. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
8. (topology) A continuous map ${\displaystyle f}$ from the unit interval ${\displaystyle I=[0,1]}$ to a topological space ${\displaystyle X}$.
9. (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.

Synonyms

• (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)

1. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles

     pathing young Henry's unadvised ways

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

path (uncountable)

1. (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]
• “path”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Ptah, phat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pæþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz, from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs.

Alternative forms

• paþ, peth, paþþe, paaþ, pathe, paththe, pað, paath

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?/, /pa??/, /p??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

path (plural pathes)

1. An informal or unpaved path or trail; a track.
2. A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A course or route.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A vessel or vein.

Related terms

• pathen
• pathyng

Descendants

• English: path
• Scots: paith

References

• “p??th, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.

Etymology 2

From path (noun).

Verb

path

1. Alternative form of pathen