kato

kato

1. basket

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

Compare with kuto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/ [ˈka.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

kato (Badlit spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)

1. dog tick

From kadto.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈto/ [kɐˈt̪o]
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

kató (Badlit spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)

1. alternative form of kadto (“that away from us”)

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, Spanish gato, German Katze, Polish kot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ka‧to

kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

1. cat

   Hypernym: feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

   Hyponyms: kateto (“a small cat”), (neologism) katiĉo (“a tom”), katido (“a kitten”), katino (“a female cat”), (idiomatic) virkato (“a tom”)

   Holonym: kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

   Meronym: kataĵo (“cat meat”)

• katherbo (“catnip”)
• mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)

From Proto-Finnic *kato, from the same root as *katodak (see kadota).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑto/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧to

kato

1. crop failure, failure of crops

   Synonym: viljakato

2. loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)

   yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience

3. (historical linguistics) loss, omission, elision

• kadota

• “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 1 July 2023

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtoˣ/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧to

kato (colloquial or dialectal)

1. inflection of katsoa / kattoa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

   Kato, tuolla on George!

   Look, there's George!

   Kato ny, mähän sanoin.

   See, I told you so.

• katso
• ka (colloquial)

kato (colloquial or dialectal)

1. see, look

   Se on kato sillä lailla.

   See, that’s the way it is.

   Kato nääs! / Kato kato!

   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. / ...kato.

   ...you see (at the end of a sentence)

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

• kota, toka

Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Rhymes: -ato

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

kato

1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

IPA^(key): /ˈkato/ [ˈkɐtɔ]

kato

1. flow
2. current

kato

1. flowing (of the tide)
2. flooding (of the tide)

kato

1. basket

kato

1. nominative singular masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ka‧to

kato f

1. vocative singular of kata

• cato — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈtoʔ/ [kɐˈt̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧to

katô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)

1. blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
2. (figurative) spurt of mischief or naughtiness

   Synonyms: kapilyuhan, kalokohan

3. (pathology) cyst in animal flesh

   Synonyms: kiste, kisto

4. synonym of balukanag

• “kato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• akto, toka, kota, tako, Atok