# bato
## Aklanon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

### Noun

bato
* stone

## Alangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Noun

bató
* stone
* (anatomy) kidney

## Antillean Creole
### Etymology

From French bateau.

### Noun

bato
* boat

## Awabakal
### Noun

bato
* water
    Synonyms: kokoin, yarro
** 1892, An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal‎ (in English):Bato, m., water

### References

* Awabakal language dictionary

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧to
* IPA: /baˈto/ [baˈto]

#### Noun

bató (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)
* (anatomy) kidney
* (Daet) rock; stone
    Synonym: gapo

##### Derived terms

* bato-bato
* batohon
* mabato
* magbato

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧to
* IPA: /ˈbatoʔ/ [ˈba.toʔ]

#### Noun

batò (Basahan spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)
* cue ball

##### Derived terms

* pambato

##### See also

* tako

## Caló
### Alternative forms

* batu, batú

### Noun

bato m (plural batuces)
* father
    Synonyms: batico, (affectionate) dada

### References

* “bato” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 18.
* “bato” in Flamenco - Caló, El Flamenco.
* “bato” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈba.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈba.to]

### Verb

bato
* first-person singular present indicative of batre

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Compare Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu and Maori whatu.
The sense of "kidney" is a semantic loan from Tagalog bato.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧to
* IPA: /baˈto/ [bɐˈt̪o]

#### Noun

bató
* stone; pebble, rock, or boulder
* gem
* (medicine) kidney stone
    Synonym: bato sa rinyon
* (medicine) gallstone
    Synonym: bato sa apdo
* piece in chess, checkers, sungka or similar games
* (bingo) token
* flint of a lighter
* (anatomy) kidney
    Synonyms: amimislon, rinyon

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bato.

#### Verb

bató
* to harden into stone
* to stand motionless
* to put stones into jewelry
* to use something as a sinker
* to strike the flint of a lighter
* to stone
* to line with stones
* (by extension) to hurl an object at someone or something
* to throw out a question
* to embroil; to cause to be involved

#### Adjective

bató
* stone
* concrete (made of concrete)
* stonehard
* rocklike; stonelike

#### Derived terms

* bato sa apdo (“gallstone”)
* bato sa rinyon
* bato-bato (“anchor; sinker; stone used in artificial jewelry”)
* batobalani
* batong buhi
* batoon (“rocky; stony; full of pimples”)
* binato (“firm, round and oval-shaped purple yam”)
* kabatoan (“place full of rocks”)
* kabatohan (“scree”)
* pamato (“anchor; sinker; anchorman in a relay; best bet; spending money”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧to
* IPA: /ˈbato/ [ˈba.t̪o]

#### Verb

bato
* to borrow money
* to buy something for credit

## Erromintxela
### Alternative forms

* batu

### Etymology

Compare Caló bato.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bato/

### Noun

bato
* father

### References

* Alexandre Baudrimont (1862) “bato”, in Vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens habitant les pays basques français [Vocabulary of the language of the Roma living in the French Basque Country], Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhou, →OCLC

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From bati +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbato]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: ba‧to

### Noun

bato (accusative singular baton, plural batoj, accusative plural batojn)
* blow, hit, strike, stroke (physical attack, punch)
    Synonym: frapo

## Galician
### Verb

bato
* first-person singular present indicative of bater

## Gun
### Etymology

Likely from French bateau

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bā.tō/

### Noun

bato (plural bato lɛ́ or bato lẹ́)
* ship

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French bateau (“boat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈto/

### Noun

bato
* boat, ship

#### Related terms

* batiman

## Higaonon
### Noun

bato
* stone, rock

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu (compare Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Ilocano bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

#### Noun

bató
* rock, stone, cobble

#### Verb

bató
* to stone

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

báto
* a complete thing, the whole
* a piece of anything that is round or cubic in shape

#### Verb

bátò
* to resist or oppose
* to rise up
* to backtalk

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbato/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: ba‧to

### Noun

bato (plural bati)
* beating

#### Derived terms

* batar

## Ilocano
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu (compare Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Sundanese batu, Tagalog bato).

### Noun

bato
* rock, stone, cobble

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin batus, from Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos), from Biblical Hebrew בַּת (bat).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: bà‧to

### Noun

bato m (plural bati)
* (historical) bath (unit of liquid measure)

### Further reading

* bato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Kankanaey
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Kankanaey) IPA: /baˈto/ [bʌˈto]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: ba‧to

### Noun

bató
* rock; stone

#### Derived terms

* kabatoan

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Unknown; possibly of onomatopoeic origin.
Documented in a glossary from the late eighth century, which translates batat (“yawns”) as the Anglo-Saxon ginath (= Old English ġinaþ).

#### Alternative forms

* battō (misspelling?)
* badō

#### Verb

batō (present infinitive batāre, perfect active batāvī, supine batātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
* to yawn
* to gape open

##### Derived terms

* bataculō

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: badare, ⇒ abbadare
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: badar
** Old French: beer (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: badar
*** Occitan: badar
* Gallo-Italic:
** Romagnol: badêr, ⇒ abadêr
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exbatāre
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Catalan: esbadar
*** Occitan: esbadar
*** Old French: esbaer, esbahir (see there for further descendants)

#### References

* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “batare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 287
* ↑ Hessels, John Henry. 1906. A late eighth-century Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary preserved in the library of the Leiden University. Cambridge University Press. Page 69.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

batō
* dative/ablative singular of batus

## Lingala
### Noun

bato class 2
* plural of moto

## Mansaka
### Etymology

From batu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu.

### Noun

bato
* stone

## Maranao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Noun

bato
* stone; rock
* (gambling) chips

#### Derived terms

* batobarani' (“magnet”)
* batobato (“hump”)
* batokapala (“headstone”)
* paribato

## Masbatenyo
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Noun

bató
* stone; rock

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French bateau.

### Noun

bato
* boat

### References

* Phillip Baker, Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (1987) Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français (in French)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: ba‧to

### Verb

bato
* first-person singular present indicative of bater

## Ratagnon
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Noun

bató
* stone

## Sambali
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

### Noun

bató
* stone; rock

## Seychellois Creole
### Etymology

From French bateau.

### Noun

bato
* boat

### References

* Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbato/ [ˈba.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Syllabification: ba‧to

### Etymology 1

Probably from Ancient Greek βάττος (báttos, “stutterer”), of imitative origin. See also βατταλογέω (battalogéō, “to stammer”), English bay$^4$ (“to bark, bay, howl”).

#### Noun

bato m (plural batos)
* (dated) dork, dimwit
* (Latin America, informal) young man, youth
* (Mexico, colloquial) chump, punk
* (Mexico, colloquial) dude, guy, buddy

### Etymology 2

From Caló bato.

#### Noun

bato m (plural batos)
* (Spain, slang) father
    Synonyms: padre, papá, jefe

#### Verb

bato
* first-person singular present indicative of batir

### References

* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “bato”, 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
* “bato”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Compare Bikol Central bato, Capiznon bato, Cebuano bato, Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Ilocano bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu, Maori whatu, Niuean patu, Pangasinan bato, Ratagnon bato, Sundanese batu, and Waray-Waray bato.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /baˈto/ [bɐˈt̪o] (“stone; kidney; gallstone; gem; knot in wood; act of throwing; bored person; (slang) meth”, noun)
*** Audio:(file)
*** Rhymes: -o
*** Homophone: Bato
** IPA: /ˈbatoʔ/ [ˈbaː.t̪oʔ] (“chief piece in a game of native quoits called tangga”, noun)
*** Rhymes: -atoʔ
* Syllabification: ba‧to

### Noun

bató (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)
* stone
    Synonym: piyedra
* (anatomy) kidney
    Synonym: rinyon
* gallstone
* gem; jewel
    Synonym: hiyas
* knot in wood
* act of throwing something
    Synonyms: tapon, hagis, itsa, balibag, salya
* (idiomatic, colloquial) bored person
* (slang) methamphetamine
    Synonyms: agimat, shabu

#### Derived terms

* asukal-bato
* bahay-na-bato
* bato ang katawan
* bato bato pik
* bato lata
* bato sa lansangan
* bato-bato sa langit, ang tamaan huwag magalit
* bato-sa-rinyon
* batong-bakal
* batong-buga
* batong-buhay
* batong-gilingan
* batong-itim
* batong-kiskisan
* batong-lapis
* batong-pantingan
* batong-panulok
* batong-tampok
* batong-tapakan
* batong-tuntungan
* batong-urian
* batuhan
* batuhin
* bumato
* hasaang bato
* hayto
* ibato
* kabato
* kabatuhan
* mabato
* magbabato
* magbatuhan
* magpabato
* makipagbatuhan
* pagbato
* pamato

#### Related terms

* Arkong Bato
* Cotabato

### Noun

batò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)
* chief piece in a game of native quoits called tangga

#### Derived terms

* pamato
* pambato

#### See also

* pato

### Adjective

bató (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜓ)
* (figurative) stingy; miserly
* (figurative) stubborn; unyielding
* (figurative) numb
* (idiomatic, colloquial) bored

### Further reading

* “bato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* tabo, abot, taob, bota

## Ternate
### Adverb

bato
* only, exclusively
    haka ngori maobo bato ― give me only the bone
* just, merely
    ana isedu bato ― they just joked

#### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh