chato

See also: chāto, chatô, and Chatô

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chato, from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”). Doublet of prato and plati-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃato/ [ˈt͡ʃa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato

Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas)

1. (rare) flat
2. pug-nosed

Noun

chato m (plural chatos)

1. low cup for drinking wine
2. (colloquial) liquid contained in said cup

Derived terms

• ir de chatos

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Occitan

Noun

chato f (plural chatos)

1. (Mistralian) alternative form of chata (“girl”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: cha‧to

Noun

chato f

1. vocative singular of chata

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chato, from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”). Doublet of prato and plati-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.to/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa.tu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.tu/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (most dialects) -atu, (Southern Brazil) -ato
• Hyphenation: cha‧to

Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas, comparable, comparative mais chato, superlative o mais chato or chatíssimo, diminutive chatinho, augmentative chatão)

1. flat

   Synonyms: achatado, plano, reto

2. (colloquial) boring

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:monótono

   O golfe é chato. ― Golf is boring.

3. (colloquial) annoying

   Synonym: irritante

   Que chato! ― How annoying!

4. (colloquial) shameful

   Synonym: vergonhoso

5. (colloquial) disappointing

   Synonym: decepcionante

Inflection

Forms of chato

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
positive	chato	chata	chatos	chatas
comparative	mais chato	mais chata	mais chatos	mais chatas
superlative	chatíssimo	chatíssima	chatíssimos	chatíssimas
augmentative	chatão	chatona	chatões	chatonas
diminutive	chatinho	chatinha	chatinhos	chatinhas

Derived terms

• chatear
• chatice
• chato de galocha
• chatonildo

Noun

chato m (plural chatos, feminine chata, feminine plural chatas)

1. (colloquial) bore (a boring, uninteresting person)
2. (colloquial) an annoying person
3. pubic louse

See also

• chatô

Further reading

• “chato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “chato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “chato”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “chato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Given that this word is attested rather late in time, such as in Cervantes' Don Quixote of 1605, it's theorized that it may have been borrowed from Portuguese (where the phonetic shift of the Latin consonant cluster -pl- to -ch- is regular; in Spanish, it generally becomes -ll- instead); alternatively, it may have been a colloquial word used by the people that did not make its way into written documents prior to Spanish Golden Age literature, as only learned people and scholars could write in the Middle Ages. The phonetic evolution in this case may be explained by the word often having been postconsonantal (such as es chato, los chatos, un chato, etc.), which would fit in more with Spanish phonetic norms (compare henchir, hinchar). Doublet of plato, which was borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate to Portuguese chato, Catalan plat, French plat, and Italian piatto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃato/ [ˈt͡ʃa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: cha‧to

Adjective

chato (feminine chata, masculine plural chatos, feminine plural chatas)

1. flat

   Synonyms: plano, llano

2. pug-nosed
3. (Chile) annoyed, fed up, sick and tired

   Synonyms: harto, hastiado, cabreado

4. (Spain, Antilles, informal) kiddo, little one, youngster
5. (Peru, informal) (of a person) short

Derived terms

• achatar

Descendants

• → Catalan: xato

Further reading

• “chato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈχatɔ/

Verb

chato

1. aspirate mutation of cato

Mutation

Mutated forms of cato

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cato	gato	nghato	chato

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.