kato

See also: Kato, katõ, katō, and Katō

'Are'are

Noun

kato

basket

References

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

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Compare with kuto.

Noun

kato

dog tick

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Adverb

kato

that

Esperanto

katoj

Etymology

Borrowed from French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ‎‎‎ (kats‎‎), Italian gatto, German Katze, etc., from Latin cattus, from an Afro-Asiatic language.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
Hyphenation: ka‧to
Rhymes: -ato
Audio:
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Noun

kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

cat

Hypernyms

feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

Hyponyms

kateto (“a small cat”)
katiĉo (“a tom”) (neologism)
katido (“a kitten”)
katino (“a female cat”)
virkato (“a tom”) (idiomatic)

Meronyms

kataĵo (“cat meat”)

Holonyms

kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

Derived terms

katherbo (“catnip”)
mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *kaďa- (“to leave”). Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit (“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed (“to leave smth”), Moksha кадомс (kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш (kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны (kylʹyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy (“to let; to leave”), Mansi хули (“to leave”), Selkup [Term?] (/quəčə-/, “to leave”). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu (“loss”).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ka‧to
Rhymes: -ɑto
IPA^(key): [ˈkɑto]

Noun

kato

failure of crops
loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)
yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience

Declension

Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative		kato	kadot
genitive		kadon	katojen
partitive		katoa	katoja
illative		katoon	katoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		kato	kadot
accusative	nom.	kato	kadot
accusative	gen.	kadon	kadot
genitive		kadon	katojen
partitive		katoa	katoja
inessive		kadossa	kadoissa
elative		kadosta	kadoista
illative		katoon	katoihin
adessive		kadolla	kadoilla
ablative		kadolta	kadoilta
allative		kadolle	kadoille
essive		katona	katoina
translative		kadoksi	kadoiksi
instructive		—	kadoin
abessive		kadotta	kadoitta
comitative		—	katoineen

Derived terms

kadota (verb)

Compounds

immuunikato
karvakato
katoalue
katokorvaus
katovahinko
katovuosi
kulmakarvakato
luukato
otsonikato
perikato
silmäripsikato
väestökato
yleisökato

Etymology 2

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ka‧to
Rhymes: -ɑto
IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtoˣ]

Verb

kato

(colloquial) look!
Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!
(colloquial) see (used often with ny)
Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.

Synonyms

katso
ka (colloquial)

Interjection

kato

(colloquial) see or look.
- Se on kato sillä lailla.
  - See, that’s the way it is.
- Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
  - Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
- Kato nääs, säkin olet saapunut paikalle.
  - Lo and behold, you have arrived on the scene, too.
- ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
  - ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)

Synonyms

katsos, näet, nimittäin

Anagrams

kota, toka

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.to/

Noun

kato (plural kati)

cat

Japanese

Romanization

kato

Rōmaji transcription of かと

Niuean

Noun

kato

basket

Novial

Etymology

kate +‎ -o (masculine nominal suffix).

Noun

kato m (plural katos)

tomcat, male cat

Hypernyms

kate (“cat”)

Coordinate terms

kata (“female cat”)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɔ/

Noun

kato f

vocative singular of kata

Tagalog

Noun

katô

blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
(figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness