# chato
## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, inherited from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Doublet of prato and plati-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃato/ [ˈt͡ʃa.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ato

### Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas)
* (rare) flat
* pug-nosed

### Noun

chato m (plural chatos)
* low cup for drinking wine
* (colloquial) liquid contained in said cup

#### Derived terms

* ir de chatos

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxa.tɔ/
* Rhymes: -atɔ
* Syllabification: cha‧to

### Noun

chato f
* vocative singular of chata

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, inherited from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Doublet of prato and plati-.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃa.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃa.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃa.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃa.tu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃa.tu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa.tu/
* Rhymes: (most dialects) -atu, (Southern Brazil) -ato
* Hyphenation: cha‧to

### Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas, comparable, comparative mais chato, superlative o mais chato or chatíssimo, diminutive chatinho)
* flat
    Synonyms: achatado, plano, reto
* (colloquial) boring
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:monótono
    O golfe é chato. ― Golf is boring.
* (colloquial) annoying
    Synonym: irritante
    Que chato! ― How annoying!
* (colloquial) shameful
    Synonym: vergonhoso
* (colloquial) disappointing
    Synonym: decepcionante

#### Derived terms

* chatear
* chatice
* chato de galocha

### Noun

chato m (plural chatos, feminine chata, feminine plural chatas)
* (colloquial) bore (a boring, uninteresting person)
* (colloquial) an annoying person
* pubic louse

### Further reading

* “chato”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “chato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). As the Spanish word was attested rather late in time, such as in Cervantes' Don Quixote of 1605, there are theories that it may have been a borrowing from Portuguese (where the phonetic shift of the Latin consonant cluster -pl- to -ch- is more normal; in Spanish, it usually becomes -ll-), or alternatively that it may have been a popular word used by the people that did not make its way into written documents prior to Spanish Golden Age literature, as it was only learned people and scholars writing in the Middle Ages. The phonetic evolution in this case may be explained by the word often having been postconsonantal (such as es chato, los chatos, un chato, etc.), which would fit in more with Spanish phonetic norms (compare henchir, hinchar). Doublet of plato, which in contrast to chato has a more learned quality. Cognate to Portuguese chato, Catalan plat, French plat, Italian piatto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃato/ [ˈt͡ʃa.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Syllabification: cha‧to

### Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas)
* flat
    Synonyms: plano, llano
* pug-nosed
* (Chile) annoyed, fed up, sick and tired
    Synonyms: harto, hastiado, cabreado
* (Antilles, informal) kiddo, little one, youngster
* (Peru, informal) (of a person) short

#### Derived terms

* achatar

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: xato

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “chato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “chato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈχatɔ/

### Verb

chato
* Aspirate mutation of cato.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.