atta

See also: Atta, attá, átta, attā, åtta, and attą̊

English

Etymology 1

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Contraction

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Alternative forms

• thatta

Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

   • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books.

     The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

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Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (thou). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʾattɔ).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

Pronoun

atta

1. you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)

   𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta /anāku u atta/ ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)

Cuneiform spellings

Phonetic
𒀜𒋫 (at-ta)

See also

Akkadian personal pronouns¹
			Independent forms			Pronominal Suffixes
			Nominative	Oblique²	Dative	Predicative³	Possessive⁴	Accusative⁵	Dative⁵
Singular	1st		anāku	yâti	yâšim, ayyâšim	-āku	-ī, -ya	-anni, -nni, -ninni	-am, -m, -nim
	2nd	m	atta	kâta	kâšim, kâšum	-āta	-ka	-ka	-kum
		f	atti	kâti	kâšim	-āti	-ki	-ki	-kim
	3rd	m	šū	šuāti, šuātu, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-	-šu	-šu	-šum
		f	šī	šuāti, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-at	-ša	-ši	-šim
Plural	1st		nīnu	niāti	niāšim	-ānu	-ni	-niāti	-niāšim
	2nd	m	attunu	kunūti	kunūšim	-ātina	-kunu	-kunūti	-kunūšim
		f	attina	kināti⁶	kināšim⁶	-ātunu	-kina	-kināti	-kināšim
	3rd	m	šunu	šunūti	šunūšim	-ā	-šunu	-šunūti	-šunūšim
		f	šina	šināti	šināšim⁶	-ū	-šina	-šināti	-šināšim
1. This table gives Old Babylonian inflection. 2. Used to express the Accusative and Genitive case.				3. Used exclusively on adjectives to form the predicative construction. 4. Used on nouns and prepositions.			5. Used on verbs. Always follows the Ventive. 6. Still unattested form.

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Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta

Verb

atta (active)

1. (intransitive) to be born
2. (transitive) to live in (a location)

Inflection

Class I Verb Subjects (Active)

Verbs beginning with a vowel.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	attali atta-li	ilatta il-atta	ilooatta iloo-atta
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishatta ish-atta	hashatta hash-atta
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	atta	(hoo)atta (hoo-)atta

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Choctaw

Verb

atta

1. to live

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Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/
• Rhymes: -atta
• Hyphenation: àt‧ta

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and .

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	atta	attae
Genitive	attae	attārum
Dative	attae	attīs
Accusative	attam	attās
Ablative	attā	attīs
Vocative	atta	attae

Descendants

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: tatà (archaic)

References

• “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atta 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)
• atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• aththa, atha, eththa

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

Noun

atta m

1. father

Descendants

• North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
• West Frisian: heit

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Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ata, āta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ātta

1. eight

Descendants

• Swedish: åtta

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Pali

Alternative forms

• Alternative scripts

  • 𑀅𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
  • अत्त (Devanagari script)
  • অত্ত (Bengali script)
  • අත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
  • အတ္တ or ဢတ္တ or ဢတ်တ (Burmese script)
  • อตฺต or อัตตะ (Thai script)
  • ᩋᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
  • ອຕ຺ຕ or ອັຕຕະ (Lao script)
  • អត្ត (Khmer script)
  • 𑄃𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

Noun

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

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Sicilian

Noun

atta f

1. Alternative form of gatta

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Turkish

Noun

atta

1. singular locative of at

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Yagara

Pronoun

atta

1. I

References

• State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.