Ratte

See also: ratte and rätte

English

Noun

Ratte (plural Rattes)

1. Alternative form of ratte (“kind of potato”)

Anagrams

• Treat, atter, tater, teart, tetra, tetra-, treat

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ratte, from Old High German ratta, rato, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”); see that entry and English rat for more. Compare also Dutch rat, Swedish råtta, French rat.

The consonantism ratta in Old High German (instead of *razza) is unexplained. One possible explanation is that the form was borrowed from Old Saxon ratta. The dialectal German variant Ratz could be reflective of an inherited Proto-Germanic form, an adaptation of the Old Saxon form, or (perhaps most likely) a later expressive derivative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁatə/
• Rhymes: -atə

• Audio:

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Noun

Ratte f (genitive Ratte, plural Ratten, diminutive Rättchen n, feminine Rättin)

1. rat

Declension

Declension of Ratte [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ratte	die	Ratten
genitive	einer	der	Ratte	der	Ratten
dative	einer	der	Ratte	den	Ratten
accusative	eine	die	Ratte	die	Ratten

Related terms

• Bisamratte
• Kanalratte
• Rattenschwanz
• Beutelratte
• rattig
• Rattenkönig

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ratta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

• “Ratte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ratte” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ratte” in Duden online
• Ratte on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈratə/

Noun

Ratte f

1. plural of Ratt