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rato

See also: RATO, and Rato

English

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Noun

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rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)

  1. Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)

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'Are'are

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Noun

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rato

  1. sun

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish rato.

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Noun

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rato m (plural ratos)

  1. (Castilianism) moment
    Synonym: estona

Etymology 2

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Verb

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rato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Rato en urba strato

Etymology

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Probably of Romance origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrato]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ra‧to

Noun

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

  1. rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)

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Galician

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Etymology

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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.[1] Compare English rat.

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Noun

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rato m (plural ratos)

  1. mouse
  2. (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
  3. saury (Scomberesox saurus)
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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French râteau.

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Noun

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rato

  1. rake

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  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Ido

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rato (de speco Rattus rattus).

Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.

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Noun

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rato (plural rati)

  1. rat

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈra.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: rà‧to

Adjective

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

  1. (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
  2. (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)
    Antonyms: invalido, irrito
  3. (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato

Further reading

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

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Latin

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Adjective

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ratō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ratus

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  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

Noun

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rato m

  1. rat

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  • Middle High German: ratte, rate

Portuguese

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rato (Mus musculus)

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  • Rhymes: -atu
  • Hyphenation: ra‧to

Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

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Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

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rato m (plural ratos)

  1. (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)
    Synonyms: bocado, pouco

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Verb

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rato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ratar

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrato/ [ˈra.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: ra‧to

Etymology 1

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From Latin raptus.

Noun

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rato m (plural ratos)

  1. a while, bit (a short period of time)
    • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas:
      Durante tres meses, en los ratos libres que le deja el periódico y su labor clandestina escribe un poema de más de seiscientos versos en donde se sumerge en el misterio y en el martirio de los poetas menores.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. time
    Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.
    He/She had a good time watching the movie.
    Me hizo pasar un mal rato.
    I had a terrible time because of him/her.
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Etymology 2

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See rata, the modern term.

Noun

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

  1. (archaic) male rat

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Ternate

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rato (Jawi راتو)

  1. a gust of wind
  2. a storm

References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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