# prato
## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prato, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾato/ [ˈpɾa.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ato

### Noun

prato f (plural pratos)
* dish, plate
* dish, preparation; recipe
** 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:E pois eu doze perdizes, e de polos ducia e media lle hei de lebar se Deus quer, e se podo vnha Tenreyra, por ser prato regalado que se estima en calquer mesa.Then I twelve partridges and a dozen and a half chickens I ought to take, God willing, and if I can a calf [veal] because it is an enticing dish that is appreciated in any table.

#### Coordinate terms

* coitelo
* culler
* garfo
* tallador

#### Derived terms

* empratar

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “prato”, 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), “prato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “prato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin prātum (“meadow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpra.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: prà‧to
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

prato m (plural prati)
* grass, lawn (ground covered with grass kept closely mown)
    falciare il prato ― to mow the lawn
* meadow

#### Derived terms

* prataiolo
* prateria
* prativo
* pratolina
* pratoso

### Anagrams

* parto, porta, porta-, potrà, tarpo, tarpò

## Latin
### Noun

prātō
* dative/ablative singular of prātum

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us. Doublet of prata and *chato.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾato/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: pra‧to

### Noun

prato m (plural pratos)
* dish, plate
** 1435, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-39:
    Rematouse enno meestre a sartana e o prato de Davi por XDavi's pan and dish were auctioned to the Master
** 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a:
    Dous barriis, quatro pichees destano, dous pratos destano e hun de madeira … Hun conqeiro con viinte et quatro conqas et seys pratos de madeira, et tres malladeras et hun enbudoTwo barrels, four tin pitchers, two tin dishes and a wooden one … a cupboard with twenty-four cups and six wooden dishes, and three bowls for shucking and a funnel

#### Descendants

* Fala: pratu, platu
* Galician: prato
* Portuguese: prato (see there for further descendants)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “prato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “prato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prato, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us. Doublet of the popularly inherited chato and the Hellenism plati-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾa.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: pra‧to

### Noun

prato m (plural pratos)
* plate
** a flat dish from which food is served or eaten
** a course at a meal
* (music) cymbal
    Synonym: címbalo

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:prato.

#### Descendants

* → Annobonese: paatu
* → Bengali: পরাত (porat)
* → Old Tupi: pratu
** Nheengatu: paratú