# -ata
## Translingual
### Etymology

From the nominative neuter plural of Latin -ātus, -āta, with meaning: "those having, purveyed with (a certain feature)".

### Suffix

-ata
* forms taxons from nouns with underlying meaning "having a certain feature"
    Tentaculata ― having tentacles, tentacled, a taxonomic class made of animals having many tentacles

#### Derived terms
## English
### Suffix

-ata
* Used to form formal plurals of certain Greek-derived words ending '-a', such as thema/themata, stigma/stigmata, schema/schemata.

### Anagrams

* AAT, TAA, taa

## Esperanto
### Suffix

-ata
* See -at-

## Finnish
### Etymology

Re-extracted from -ta applied to stems ending in -a-. Use probably also influenced by Swedish -a, particularly when used for loanwords.

### Suffix

-ata (front vowel harmony variant -ätä, stem -aa-, linguistic notation -AA- or -AtA)
* Derives verbs.

#### Usage notes

Attaches to the weak stem of whatever it is affixed to.

#### Conjugation

Note that gradation may apply.

#### See also

* -ta

### Anagrams

* -taa, aat, taa

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɒtɒ]

### Suffix

-ata
* (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -ás), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-a), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.
    ‎hall (“to hear”) + ‎-ata → ‎hallata (“his/her hearing [of/about something]”)

#### Usage notes

* (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
    -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs
    -te is added to most front-vowel verbs
    -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)
    -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)
    -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)

#### Derived terms
### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

## Interlingua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian -ata, Portuguese -ada/Spanish -ada, all ultimately from Latin -āta(m).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈata/

### Suffix

-ata
* forms nouns from nouns, denoting contents or a quantity; -ful, load
    ‎coclear (“spoon”) + ‎-ata → ‎coclearata (“spoonful”)
    ‎bucca (“mouth”) + ‎-ata → ‎buccata (“mouthful”)
    ‎carretta (“cart”) + ‎-ata → ‎carrettata (“cartload”)

#### Usage notes

* This suffix is not to be confused with -ato (“-ate, -dom”).

#### Derived terms
### References

* Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ta/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: -à‧ta

#### Suffix

-ata f (non-lemma form of past participle-forming suffix)
* feminine singular of -ato; forms the feminine singular past participle of regular -are verbs
    ‎trovare (“to find”) + ‎-ata → ‎trovata (“found”)

### Etymology 2

Nominalization of the past participle form of Etymology 1.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ta/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: -à‧ta

#### Suffix

-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ate)
* used to form verbal nouns, derived from regular -are verbs, expressing an instance of the action expressed by the verb; -th, -ness, -hood
    ‎telefonare (“to phone”) + ‎-ata → ‎telefonata (“phone call”)
    ‎nevicare (“to snow”) + ‎-ata → ‎nevicata (“snowfall, snow”)
* used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a period of time
    ‎giorno (“daytime”) + ‎-ata → ‎giornata (“a day”)
    ‎mattina (“morning-time”) + ‎-ata → ‎mattinata (“a morning”)
* used to form words, derived from nouns, corresponding to -ful (as much as something will hold)
    ‎cucchiaio (“spoon”) + ‎-ata → ‎cucchiaiata (“spoonful”)
    ‎forchetta (“fork”) + ‎-ata → ‎forchettata (“a forkful”)
* used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a blow with the named object
    ‎coltello (“knife”) + ‎-ata → ‎coltellata (“stab”)
    ‎bastone (“stick”) + ‎-ata → ‎bastonata (“blow with a stick”)
* used to form nouns, derived from nouns with a negative connotation, expressing an action
    ‎cretino (“stupid”) + ‎-ata → ‎cretinata (“a stupid action or thing, stupidity”)
    ‎scena (“scene”) + ‎-ata → ‎scenata (“row, scene”)
* used to form collective nouns
    ‎cucciolo (“cub, puppy”) + ‎-ata → ‎cucciolata (“litter (of newborn animals)”)
    ‎fiaccola (“torch”) + ‎-ata → ‎fiaccolata (“torchlight procession”)
* (rare) used as an intensifier
    ‎fiamma (“flame”) + ‎-ata → ‎fiammata (“burst of flames”)

##### Usage notes

* Functions of this suffix may sometimes overlap (e.g. ‎mano (“hand”) + ‎-ata → ‎manata (“a handful”, but also “a smack given with the hand, a slap”) )

##### Descendants

* → Ligurian: -âta

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Ultimately from the feminine of etymology 2.

#### Suffix

-āta (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)
* forms nouns

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: -ata
** Sicilian: -ata
* North Italian:
** Venetan: -ada
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: -ada
** Franco-Provençal: -â
** Old French: -ee
*** French: -ée
** Occitan: -ada
*** → French: -ade
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: -ada, -ata (Pyrenean)
** Galician: -ada
** Portuguese: -ada
** Spanish: -ada

### Etymology 2
#### Suffix

-āta
* inflection of -ātus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Suffix

-ātā
* ablative feminine singular of -ātus

## Spanish
### Suffix

-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -atas)
* female equivalent of -ato