different between pato vs rato

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

Acronym of rocket assisted take-off.

Noun

rato (plural ratos)

1. An auxiliary rocket engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft
2. A takeoff assisted by such a unit
3. JATO

Anagrams

• -ator, Roat, Rota, Taro, rota, taro

'Are'are

Noun

rato

1. sun

References

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rato/
• Hyphenation: ra?to
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

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

1. rat

Galician

Etymology

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. Confer rat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rato?/

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

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

Related terms

• rata (“rat”)

References

• “rraton” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

Ido

Noun

rato (plural rati)

1. rat

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra.to/
• Hyphenation: rà?to

Adjective

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

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

   Antonyms: invalido, irrito

3. (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato

References

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

Latin

Adjective

rat?

1. dative masculine singular of ratus
2. dative neuter singular of ratus
3. ablative masculine singular of ratus
4. ablative neuter singular of ratus

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

Noun

rato m

1. rat

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Portuguese mur.

Alternative forms

• ratto (obsolete)

Noun

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)

   Synonym: (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

Derived terms

• ratão, ratazana (augmentatives)
• ratinho (diminutives)

Etymology 2

Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

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

   Synonyms: bocado, pouco

Further reading

• “rato” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rato/, [?ra.t?o]

Etymology 1

From Latin raptus.

Noun

rato m (plural ratos)

1. a while, bit (a short period of time)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From rata, this from Proto-Germanic *rattaz.

Noun

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

1. (archaic) male rat

Further reading

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