# tato
## Chamorro
### Numeral

tato
* (Old Chamorro) three (in reference to living beings).
    Synonym: tres

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtato]

### Pronoun

tato
* inflection of tento:
** nominative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative neuter plural

### Further reading

* “tato”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “tato”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Fula
### Numeral

tato
* (Pulaar dialect, with human nouns) three
    rewɓe tato
       three women

#### See also

* tati

## Galician
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: ta‧to

### Noun

tato m (plural tatos)
* stutterer (one who stutters)
    Synonym: gago

### Adjective

tato (feminine tata, masculine plural tatos, feminine plural tatas)
* stuttering
    Synonym: gago
* nasal (voice)
    Synonym: nasal

#### Derived terms

* tatexar
* tatexo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tato”, 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), “tato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tato”, 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) “tartamudo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English tattoo, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtato/
* Hyphenation: ta‧to

### Noun

tato (uncountable)
* tattoo

#### Alternative forms

* tatu (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

#### Synonyms

* rajah

#### Derived terms

* bertato
* menato
* mentato
* penato
* penatoan
* tertato

### Further reading

* “tato” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Baby talk, related to tata (“nanny”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: tà‧to

### Noun

tato m (plural tati) (regional, childish)
* Form of address for an older male, especially:
** one's father, daddy, papa
** an older brother
** any man, especially if young, taking care of the child

### References

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* ततो (Devanagari script)
* ততো (Bengali script)
* තතො (Sinhalese script)
* တတော or တတေႃ (Burmese script)
* ตโต or ตะโต (Thai script)
* ᨲᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕໂຕ or ຕະໂຕ (Lao script)
* តតោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

tato
* masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“that”)

### Pronoun

tato
* masculine/neuter ablative singular of ta (“he, it, that”)

## Paumarí
### Noun

tato f
* armadillo

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.tɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atɔ
* Syllabification: ta‧to

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

tato m pers
* (endearing) dad
    Synonyms: tata, ojciec

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tato m pers
* vocative singular of tata

### Further reading

* tato in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tato in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* tacto

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tāctus (“sense of touch”), from tāctus (“touched”), perfect passive participle of tangō (“to touch”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: ta‧to

### Noun

tato m (plural tatos)
* the sense of touch

#### Coordinate terms

* audição
* gosto, paladar
* olfato (Brazil, Portugal) ~ olfacto (Portugal only)
* tato (Brazil, Portugal) ~ tacto (Portugal only)
* visão

#### Related terms

* tanger
* tatear
* tátil

## Romani
### Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit तप्त (tapta).

### Adjective

tato (feminine tati, plural tate)
* warm

### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taptá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 323
* Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “tató¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 277
* Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Other characteristic features of Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project‎, Manchester, archived from the original on August 28, 2021
* Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “tat/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 348

## Spanish
### Etymology

A contraction of está todo (bien) ("everything's good").

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Syllabification: ta‧to

### Interjection

tato
* (slang, Dominican Republic) alright, that is all, OKAY, that’s it

### Noun

tato m (plural tatos, feminine tata, feminine plural tatas)
* (colloquial) big brother

### Further reading

* “tato”, 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

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* tatu

### Etymology

Borrowed from English tattoo, from a Polynesian language.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈtoʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪oʔ]
* Rhymes: -oʔ
* Syllabification: ta‧to

### Noun

tatô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)
* tattoo
    Synonym: (Batangas) pika

#### Derived terms

* itato
* magpatato
* magtato
* patatuan
* tatuan

#### See also

* tatak

### Further reading

* “tato”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “tato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.to]

### Noun

tato
* any of several fish among the triggerfish (Balistidae) and the filefish (Monacanthidae)

### References

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

## Welsh
### Etymology

Abbreviation of pytato, from English potato.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtatɔ/

### Noun

tato f pl
* (South Wales) plural of taten

#### Synonyms

* tatws

#### Derived terms

* (South Wales) tato newi (“new potatoes”)

### Mutation

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