# rato
## English
### Noun

rato (countable and uncountable, plural ratos)
* Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”)

### Anagrams

* -ator, aort-, oart, Rota, taro, Orta, Roat, Taro, rota

## 'Are'are
### Noun

rato
* sun

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish rato.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

rato m (plural ratos)
* (Castilianism) moment
    Synonym: estona

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

rato
* first-person singular present indicative of ratar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Probably of Romance origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrato]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: ra‧to

### Noun

rato (accusative singular raton, plural ratoj, accusative plural ratojn)
* rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)

#### Derived terms

* bruna rato
* moskorato
* nigra rato

## Galician
### Etymology

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted. Compare English rat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrato̝/

### Noun

rato m (plural ratos)
* mouse
* (computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
* saury (Scomberesox saurus)

#### Related terms

* rata (“rat”)

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rraton”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rato”, 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), “rato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rato”, 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) “rata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French râteau.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣato/

### Noun

rato
* rake

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto rato, English rat, French rat, German Ratte, Italian ratto, Spanish rata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrato/
* Rhymes: -ato

### Noun

rato (plural rati)
* rat

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratus, perfect passive participle of reor (“to deem, judge”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: rà‧to

### Adjective

rato (feminine rata, masculine plural rati, feminine plural rate)
* (literary, rare) ratified, confirmed
* (canon law) valid, ratified, approved (of marriage)
    Antonyms: invalido, irrito
* (law, rare) Synonym of stipulato

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* Rota, Taro, Torà, arto, atro, rota, taro, tarò, torà

## Latin
### Adjective

ratō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ratus

### References

* “rato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "rato", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* rato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *raþô, *ruttô, *rattaz (“rat”). See German Ratte.

### Noun

rato m
* rat

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: ratte, rate
** German: Ratte
** Luxembourgish: Rat

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁa.tu/ [ˈha.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁa.tu/ [ˈha.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁa.tu/ [ˈχa.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁa.to/ [ˈha.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁa.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: ra‧to

### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

#### Alternative forms

* ratto (obsolete)

#### Noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)
* rat (any rodent of the genus Rattus)
* mouse (any rodent of the genus Mus)
    Synonym: (Brazil) camundongo
* (computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
    Synonym: (Brazil) mouse
* burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)
    Synonyms: gatuno, ladrão

##### Derived terms

* arroz-de-rato
* jogo de gato e rato
* ninho de rato
* orelha-de-rato
* ratão (augmentative)
* ratazinha (diminutive)
* ratinho (diminutive)
* rato almiscareiro
* rato de biblioteca
* rato-do-campo
* rato-toupeira
* rato-veadeiro

### Etymology 2

From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

#### Noun

rato m (plural ratos)
* (Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)
    Synonyms: bocado, pouco

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

rato
* first-person singular present indicative of ratar

### Further reading

* “rato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrato/ [ˈra.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Syllabification: ra‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin raptus.

#### Noun

rato m (plural ratos)
* a while, bit (a short period of time)
** 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Henri Simon Leprince”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:Durante tres meses, en los ratos libres que le deja el periódico y su labor clandestina escribe un poema de más de seiscientos versos en donde se sumerge en el misterio y en el martirio de los poetas menores.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* time
    Pasó un buen rato viendo la película.He/She had a good time watching the movie.
    Me hizo pasar un mal rato.I had a terrible time because of him/her.

##### Derived terms

* a cada rato
* a ratos
* al poco rato
* al rato
* buen rato
* mal rato
* para rato
* pasar el rato
* ratito
* rato perdido
* todo el rato

### Etymology 2

See rata, the modern term.

#### Noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)
* (archaic) male rat

### Further reading

* “rato”, 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
* “rato” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.to]

### Noun

rato (Jawi راتو)
* a gust of wind
* a storm

### References

* Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh