NATO

See also: nato, Nato, ñato, nǟtõ, and .nato

English

Alternative forms

• Nato (recommended by some style guides)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.təʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Proper noun

NATO

1. Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
   • 1951 October 5, Activities in Europe Concerned with Material Support of NATO and MDAP‎^[1], Office of the Secretary of Defense, page 23:

     On the other hand, one still would have to note that relations between NATO in London and OSR in Paris were still not as closely integrated as might be desired, and that the power of decision, especially on industrial and financial matters, still was not centered in one place in the NATO.

   • 1964, Truman, Harry S., MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII‎^[2], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:18 from the start:

     Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.

   • 2007, Biden, Joe, Promises to Keep‎^[3], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, LCCN 2007019603, OCLC 1262796254, page 297:

     In the week since I’d seen him in the Oval Office, Bush had done well in Europe.[...]He’d made a strong statement on the expansion of NATO. “I believe in membership,” the president had said, “for all of Europe’s democracies that seek it and are ready to share the responsibilities that NATO brings.”[...]The president had even gone out of his way to reassure Putin that he had nothing to fear from the enlargement of NATO, which would not include Russia.

2. (slang, humorous, derogatory) Acronym of North American Terrorist Organization. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Usage notes

Although a definite article usually precedes North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as an acronym the article can be either present (the NATO) or absent (NATO), with the latter being much more common.

Derived terms

• NATOish
• NATOist

Synonyms

• (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (invective)

Related terms

• (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): SEATO

Coordinate terms

• (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): NORAD, EUCOM, USEUCOM, NORTHCOM, USNORTHCOM, USLANTFLT, LANTFLT, USAFE, AFE

Translations

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Afrikaans: NAVO
• Albanian: NATO
• Amharic: ኔቶ (neto)
• Arabic: الحِلْف الأَطْلَسِيّ‎ (al-ḥilf al-ʾaṭlasiyy), حِلْف شَمال الأَطْلَسِيّ‎ (ḥilf šamāl al-ʾaṭlasiyy), الناتُو‎ (an-nātū), حِلْف الناتُو‎ (ḥilf an-nātū)
• Aragonese: OTAN f
• Armenian: ՆԱՏՕ (hy) (NATŌ)
• Azerbaijani: NATO (az)
• Belarusian: НА́ТА f (NÁTA)
• Bengali: ন্যাটো (njaṭo)
• Bulgarian: НА́ТО (NÁTO)
• Burmese: နေတိုး (netui:)
• Catalan: OTAN (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北約 (bak¹ joek³)

  Mandarin: 北約 (zh), 北约 (zh) (Běiyuē)

• Czech: NATO (cs) n
• Danish: NATO
• Dutch: NAVO (nl)
• Esperanto: NATO
• Estonian: NATO (et)
• Finnish: NATO (fi)
• French: OTAN (fr) f
• Galician: OTAN (gl) f
• Georgian: ნატო (naṭo)
• German: NATO (de) f, Nato (de) f
• Greek: ΝΑΤΟ (el) (NATO), ΟΒΣ (OVS)
• Hebrew: נאט״ו‎ f (nat"o)
• Hindi: नैटो (naiṭo), उत्तरी अटलाण्टिक सन्धि संगठन (uttarī aṭlāṇṭik sandhi saṅgṭhan)
• Hungarian: NATO (hu)
• Ido: NATO
• Indonesian: NATO
• Interlingua: OTAN
• Irish: ECAT
• Italian: NATO (it), N.A.T.O.

• Japanese: 北大西洋条約機構 (きたたいせいようじょうやくきこう, Kitataiseyō Jōyaku Kikō), NATO (ja) (Natō)
• Kazakh: НАТО (NATO)
• Khmer: ណាតូ (naatou)
• Korean: 나토 (Nato), 북대서양 조약 기구(北大西洋條約機構) (Bukdaeseoyang joyak gigu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: NATO (ku)

• Kyrgyz: НАТО (NATO)
• Lao: ເນໂຕ (nē tō)
• Latvian: NATO
• Lithuanian: NATO
• Macedonian: НАТО f (NATO)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: NATO (no)

• Persian: ناتو‎ (fa) (nâto)
• Polish: NATO (pl)
• Portuguese: OTAN (pt) f
• Romanian: Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord f, NATO (ro)
• Russian: НА́ТО (ru) f (NÁTO)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: НАТО

  Roman: NATO (sh)

• Slovak: NATO (sk)
• Slovene: NATO (sl)
• Spanish: OTAN (es) f
• Swedish: NATO (sv)
• Tajik: НАТО (NATO)
• Telugu: నాటో (nāṭō)
• Thai: นาโต้ (naa-dtôo)
• Turkish: NATO (tr)
• Ukrainian: НА́ТО (uk) f (NÁTO)
• Urdu: نیٹو‎
• Uzbek: NATO
• Vietnamese: NATO
• Yakut: ХАҮТ (XAÜT)

Phrase

NATO

1. (slang, chiefly Malaysia and Singapore) Acronym of No Action Talk Only.
   • 1998 May 30, Kicker, “First on Everest are not Singaporeans - Sure or not?”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     turn it off then. don't nato......pressure your government to do that.:)

   • 2003 January 24, ALIEN, “Spying activities at Pedra Branca”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     haiya...i think, hah....our GOV also nowadays becoming NATO! (NATO = No Action Talk Only...!!!)

Synonyms

• all talk and no action

Anagrams

• anot, nota, tona

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German

Alternative forms

• Nato

Etymology

Borrowed from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːto/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

NATO f (proper noun, genitive NATO)

1. (with definite article) NATO

   Synonym: Nordatlantikpakt

Declension

Declension of NATO [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	NATO
genitive	einer	der	NATO
dative	einer	der	NATO
accusative	eine	die	NATO

Derived terms

• NATO-Imperialismus (Nato-Imperialismus)
• NATO-Kriegsverbrechen (Nato-Kriegsverbrechen)
• NATO-Manöver (Nato-Manöver)
• NATO-Offensive (Nato-Offensive)
• NATO-Streitkräfte (Nato-Streitkräfte)
• NATO-Truppen (Nato-Truppen)

Further reading

• NATO on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “NATO” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “NATO” in Duden online

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Japanese

Etymology

From English NATO

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ナ​トー [náꜜtòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [na̠to̞ː]

Proper noun

NATO(ナトー) • (Natō) 

1. Synonym of 北大西洋条約機構 (Kita Taiseiyō Jōyaku Kikō, “North Atlantic Treaty Organization”); the NATO

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: NA‧TO

Proper noun

NATO n (indeclinable)

1. NATO

   Synonym: Organizacja Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego

Derived terms

adjectives

• antynatowski
• natowski
• NATO-wski

 

Further reading

• NATO in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• NATO in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English NATO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈna.tu/, [ˈna.tu]

• Homophone: nato
• Rhymes: -atu

Proper noun

NATO f

1. Synonym of OTAN