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English

Etymology

From the native name in Egypt.

Noun

tota (plural totas)

1. A kind of monkey, the grivet or waag.

Anagrams

• atto-, to a T, toat

Albanian

Alternative forms

• totë

Etymology

A Lallwort.

Noun

tota

1. big sister, sister

Catalan

Adjective

tota f sg

1. feminine singular of tot

Finnish

Pronoun

tota

1. (colloquial) Partitive singular form of toi.

Interjection

tota

1. (colloquial) space filler or pause during conversation

   Synonyms: tuota, öö

Anagrams

• atto-, otat, taot

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ta/
• Rhymes: -??ta

Noun

tota f (genitive singular totu, nominative plural totur)

1. flap of skin; lappet

   Synonym: sepi

Declension

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English total, French total, German total, Spanish total, Portuguese total, Italian totale, Russian ????????? (total?nyj), all ultimately from Latin totalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.ta/

Adjective

tota

1. whole, entire

Derived terms

Latin

Adjective

t?ta

1. nominative feminine singular of t?tus
2. nominative neuter plural of t?tus
3. accusative neuter plural of t?tus
4. vocative feminine singular of t?tus
5. vocative neuter plural of t?tus

Adjective

t?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of t?tus

References

• tota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

tota (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Kajkavian) this (one)

   Synonym: ta

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *te-o-ta.

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

tota

1. (inalienable, definite) my

Usage notes

• totu is commonly used in place of toku to arouse the listener’s sympathy about some predicament that one is in.

See also

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 398

English

Etymology 1

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

Interjection

tata

1. Alternative form of ta ta

Etymology 2

From French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

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Noun

tata (plural tatas)

1. (slang) Breast.

Anagrams

• atta

Aeka

Noun

tata

1. paternal aunt

References

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

Amanab

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t?/

Noun

tata

1. pig

References

• Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

Bikol Central

Noun

tatá

1. door; gate

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?at?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 1

Compare tatay.

Noun

tata

1. a familiar address to one's father

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a?t?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 2

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

Noun

tata

1. (childish) a familiar address to a child

Pronunciation 3

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a??t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 3

Compare tastas

Verb

tata

1. to wear out

Central Tarahumara

Noun

tata

1. father

Chavacano

Noun

tata

1. father

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.ta]

Noun

tata (animate)

1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1.

     Taita. padre delos niños. tata.

     Taita. the children's father. tata.

   • Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.

     Tata. por tayta,padre [dize el niño.]

     Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

Synonyms

• tahtli

References

• Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tata

1. elder sister

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta/

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (childish) auntie

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

Further reading

• “tata” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Guaraní

Noun

tata

1. fire

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?t?]
• Hyphenation: ta?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Noun

tata (plural taták)

1. (possibly offensive) uncle, old man, fogey (used to speak of or address old men humorously or disparagingly)
2. (informal, dialectal) father, dad

Declension

Further reading

• tata in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tata, from Pali tath? (“in this way”), from Sanskrit ??? (tath?, “in that manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.ta]
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Noun

tata (first-person possessive tataku, second-person possessive tatamu, third-person possessive tatanya)

1. order
2. arrangement
3. system

Derived terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “tata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

tata f (plural tate)

1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
2. big sister

Anagrams

• atta

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk. Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad, Ancient Greek ???? (tatâ), ????? (tétta), Bulgarian ?????? (tátko), Sanskrit ??? (t?ta).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

1. dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: tatã
  • Romanian: tat?
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: tuota, teta
  • Italian: tata
    • ? Cimbrian: tatta
    • ? Mòcheno: tata
  • Neapolitan: tata
• West Iberian
  • Portuguese: tatá
  • Spanish: tata, tato, taita

References

• tata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lingala

Noun

tata 1 (plural batata 2)

1. father
2. man

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t???d??], (enunciated) [t?? t??]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?æ?t?æ?/
• Bender phonemes: {tahtah}

Determiner

tata

1. superlative particle; most

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tata/

Etymology 1

From Tamil ?????? (t?tt?)

Noun

tata

1. grandfather

   Synonym: granper

Etymology 2

From kaka, from French caca.

Noun

tata

1. (usually childish) poo, excrement

Verb

tata (medial form tata)

1. (usually childish) to poo, defecate

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

tata m

1. father

References

• “tata” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “tata” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tata.

Noun

tata

1. father, dad

Synonyms

• papa, pate

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish tata.

Noun

tata

1. father

Phuthi

Verb

-tata

1. to hurry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.ta/

Noun

tata m pers

1. (informal) dad

Declension

Synonyms

• tato
• ojciec

Further reading

• tata in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Quechua

Noun

tata

1. mister
2. father

Derived terms

• jatun tata

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâta/
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Noun

t?ta m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dad, daddy

Declension

Synonyms

• ?a?a

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tata (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/accusative singular of tat

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâ?t?/

Noun

tata m

1. dad, father

Declension

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tata/, [?t?a.t?a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, Latin America, Philippines) daddy, a term used by children for their father
2. (colloquial) nanny

   Synonyms: niñera, criada

3. (colloquial) big sister
4. (colloquial, Chile) grandfather, a term used by children for their grandfather

   Synonym: abuelo

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From teta.

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

Pronunciation

Verb

-tata (infinitive kutata)

1. to tangle

Conjugation

Related terms

• matata
• tatua

Tagalog

Noun

tata

1. conversational term used for one's father

Noun

tatà, tatâ

1. sign made by a sharp blade

Synonyms

• gatgat
• gatla
• tiab

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *?sa.

Numeral

tata

1. one

Synonyms

• taha

Yogad

Numeral

tatá

1. one