atta

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

English

Etymology 1

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Determiner

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

atta (uncountable)

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.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

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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

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 Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

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

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 Swedish

Alternative forms

• 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 forms

  • 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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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.