# fato
## Galician
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fato. Probably from Proto-Germanic *fatą: compare Old High German faz (“container; vessel”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“container; vessel; vat”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ato

#### Noun

fato m (plural fatos)
* bundle of things, especially one containing clothes
* supplies or provisions for shepherds (usually carried in a bundle)
* herd, flock, group
    Os desa vila non son máis que un fato de borrachos!That town's people are but a group of drunkards!
** 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 134:Jupiter se fezo caudillo da grey -et grey se entende aqui por ovellas ou grey de fato dellas, et caudillo por carneyroJupiter became leader of the flock - and flock here means sheep or flock of group of them, and leader means ram

##### Derived terms

* afatar (“to harness, rig; to gather, put togther”)
* fatelo (“piece of clothing”)

### Etymology 2

From Latin fatuus (“foolish”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ato

#### Adjective

fato (feminine fata, masculine plural fatos, feminine plural fatas)
* foolish, fatuous
* annoying

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fato”, 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), “fato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “hato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fate, Italian fato, and further borrowed from French fatal, German fatal, Russian фата́льный (fatálʹnyj), Spanish fatal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfato/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: fa‧to

### Noun

fato (plural fati)
* fate, lot

#### Derived terms

* fatala (“fatal”)
* fatalismo (“fatalismo”)
* fatalista (“fatalistic”)
* fatalisto (“fatalist”)

### See also

* destino (“destiny”)

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin factus.

### Adjective

fato
* done, made

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: fà‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin fātum.

#### Noun

fato m (plural fati)
* fate, destiny

##### Related terms

* fatidico

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fato
* first-person singular present indicative of fatare

## Latin
### Noun

fātō
* dative/ablative neuter singular of fatum

### Participle

fātō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fātus

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin factum.

### Noun

fato m (plural fatos)
* fact (sometimes which is real)

#### Derived terms

* de fato

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: fa‧to

### Etymology 1

Uncertain, but possibly from a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat), likely from a Proto-Germanic root *fat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pēd- (“to grasp, seize”).
Compare Old High German fazzōn (“to get dressed”), German Fetzen (“rag(s), scrap(s)”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“liquid container, vessel; vat”); also Franco-Provençal fata (“pocket”), Galician fato (“herd”), Spanish hato (“bundle; animal herd; worker supplies; clique, gang”).

#### Noun

fato m (plural fatos)
* a set of clothing traditionally worn together, such as a uniform or national costume
    Synonym: traje
* (Portugal) suit (formal clothing, male or female)
    Synonym: (Brazil) terno
* (Portugal) entrails (internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines)
    Synonym: entranhas

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fato.

##### Derived terms

* fato de banho
* fato de surf

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fato m (plural fatos)
* Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of facto.

### Etymology 3

Unknown, but likely ultimately from Arabic [Term?].

#### Noun

fato m (plural fatos)
* (collective) a small herd of goats; a flock

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “hato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 326-328

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfato]

### Noun

fato f
* vocative singular of fată

## Spanish
### Adjective

fato (feminine fata, masculine plural fatos, feminine plural fatas)
* Alternative spelling of fatuo

### Further reading

* “fato”, 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

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfa.to]

### Verb

fato
* (transitive) to align, put in a row, put side by side
* (transitive) to order, arrange

#### Conjugation
### References

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