kato
'Are'are
Noun
kato
References
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
Cebuano
Etymology 1
Compare with kuto.
Pronunciation
Noun
kato (Badlit spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)
Etymology 2
From kadto.
Pronunciation
Adverb
kató (Badlit spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)
- Alternative form of kadto (“that away from us”)
See also
Direct* | Indirect* | Oblique | Locative | Allative | Existential** | Interjection** | Manner** | ||||||
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Full | Short | Full | Short | Full | Short | Full | Short | Full | Short | ||||
Near speaker*** | karí kirí |
ri | niari niiri |
ari iri |
kan-ari† kan-iri† |
dirí | ngarí | adia | dia | diará | dará | ingon ari | Ø |
Near speaker and listener*** | kaní kiní |
ni | niani niini |
ani ini |
kan-ani† kan-ini† |
dinhi | nganhi | ania | nia | niará | Ø | ingon ani | ing-ani in-ani |
Near listener | kanâ | nà | nianà | anà | kan-anà† | dinhà dirâ |
nganhà ngarâ |
anaa | naa | naará | nará | ingon anà | ing-anà in-anà |
Remote | kadto kató |
to | niadto niato |
adto ato |
kan-adto† | didto | ngadto | atua | tua | tuará | turá | ingon adto ingon ato |
ing-ato in-ato |
†Archaic *When the demonstrative is used as a predicate, the full form must be used. Short forms never start sentences. **Full and short forms used interchangeably. Full forms may be more formal, while short forms may be more colloquial. ***These two series may be conflated in colloquial Cebuano. |
Esperanto
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin cattus, possibly a Wanderwort from an Afroasiatic or Uralic language. Compare French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ (kats), Italian gatto, German Katze, Polish kot.
Pronunciation
Noun
kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)
Derived terms
- katherbo (“catnip”)
- mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)
Finnish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *kato, from the same root as *katodak (see kadota).
Pronunciation
Noun
kato
- crop failure, failure of crops
- Synonym: viljakato
- loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)
- yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience
Declension
Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | |||
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nominative | kato | kadot | |
genitive | kadon | katojen | |
partitive | katoa | katoja | |
illative | katoon | katoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kato | kadot | |
accusative | nom. | kato | kadot |
gen. | kadon | ||
genitive | kadon | katojen | |
partitive | katoa | katoja | |
inessive | kadossa | kadoissa | |
elative | kadosta | kadoista | |
illative | katoon | katoihin | |
adessive | kadolla | kadoilla | |
ablative | kadolta | kadoilta | |
allative | kadolle | kadoille | |
essive | katona | katoina | |
translative | kadoksi | kadoiksi | |
abessive | kadotta | kadoitta | |
instructive | — | kadoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
- katua (possibly)
Related terms
Further reading
- “kato”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.
Pronunciation
Verb
kato
- (colloquial) look!
- Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!
- (colloquial) see (used often with ny)
- Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.
Synonyms
Interjection
kato (colloquial)
- see or look.
- Se on kato sillä lailla.
- See, that’s the way it is.
- Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
- Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
- Kato nääs, säkin olet saapunut paikalle.
- Lo and behold, you have arrived on the scene, too.
- ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
- ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)
Synonyms
See also
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.
Pronunciation
Noun
kato (plural kati)
Japanese
Romanization
kato
Maori
Pronunciation
Noun
kato
Adjective
kato
Niuean
Noun
kato
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
kato
- nominative singular masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
kato f
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈtoʔ/ [kɐˈt̪oʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: ka‧to
Noun
katô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)
- blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
- (figurative) spurt of mischief or naughtiness
- Synonyms: kapilyuhan, kalokohan
- (pathology) cyst in animal flesh
- synonym of balukanag
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “kato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
- 'Are'are lemmas
- 'Are'are nouns
- Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano terms with Badlit script
- Cebuano adverbs
- ceb:Mites and ticks
- Esperanto terms derived from Latin
- Esperanto terms derived from Afroasiatic languages
- Esperanto terms derived from Uralic languages
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/ato
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto GCSE3
- Esperanto BRO4
- Esperanto 1894 Universala Vortaro
- Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto
- eo:Cats
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑto
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑto/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish verb forms
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish interjections
- Ido terms borrowed from Esperanto
- Ido terms derived from Esperanto
- Ido terms borrowed from Latin
- Ido terms derived from Latin
- Ido terms borrowed from English
- Ido terms derived from English
- Ido terms borrowed from French
- Ido terms derived from French
- Ido terms borrowed from German
- Ido terms derived from German
- Ido terms borrowed from Italian
- Ido terms derived from Italian
- Ido terms borrowed from Russian
- Ido terms derived from Russian
- Ido terms borrowed from Spanish
- Ido terms derived from Spanish
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Ido/ato
- Ido lemmas
- Ido nouns
- io:Animals
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Maori terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maori lemmas
- Maori nouns
- Maori adjectives
- mi:Water
- Niuean lemmas
- Niuean nouns
- Pali lemmas
- Pali adjectives
- Pali adjectives in Latin script
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/atɔ
- Rhymes:Polish/atɔ/2 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish noun forms
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/oʔ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/oʔ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with maragsa pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Pathology
- tl:Mites and ticks