mato

See also: Mato, mató, and Maťo

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French marteau.

Noun

mato

1. hammer

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Asturian

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

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Catalan

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative form of matar

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Hyphenation: ma‧to
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

mato (accusative singular maton, plural matoj, accusative plural matojn)

1. mat

Derived terms

• musmato

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Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato, an old loan from an Indo-Iranian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑt̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato

1. worm
2. (computing) worm
3. (colloquial) maggot (soft, legless larva)
4. (colloquial) maggot (worthless person)
5. (informal) tilde

Declension

Inflection of mato (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative		mato	madot
genitive		madon	matojen
partitive		matoa	matoja
illative		matoon	matoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mato	madot
accusative	nom.	mato	madot
	gen.	madon
genitive		madon	matojen
partitive		matoa	matoja
inessive		madossa	madoissa
elative		madosta	madoista
illative		matoon	matoihin
adessive		madolla	madoilla
ablative		madolta	madoilta
allative		madolle	madoille
essive		matona	matoina
translative		madoksi	madoiksi
instructive		—	madoin
abessive		madotta	madoitta
comitative		—	matoineen

Derived terms

• madottaa
• matoinen
• matomainen
• matonen

 

Related terms

• madella
• mataa
• matelija

 

Compounds

• aivomato
• harvasukasmato
• heisimato
• hietamato
• ihomato
• iilimato
• imumato
• jauhomato
• jouhimato
• juurimato
• kaalimato
• kastemato
• keuhkomato
• kihomato
• kiiltomato
• kunttamato
• laakamato
• laiskamato
• lapamato
• lehtimato
• loismato
• madonhäätö
• madonluku
• maksamato
• matoastia
• matokomposti
• matokompostori
• matokuuri
• matokäärme
• matolääke
• mato-onki
• matosyötti
• mittarimato
• nauhamato
• nivelmato
• nuolimato
• okakärsämato
• onkimato
• pikkuaivomato
• rakkomato
• sisälmysmato
• sukkulamato
• suolimato
• syöttimato
• vattumato
• väkämato

 

Anagrams

• moat, omat

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Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/

Etymology 1

From a substrate language. Compare Portuguese mato and Spanish mata.

Noun

mato m (plural matos)

1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
2. brushwood

Derived terms

• Mato
• Mato Grande
• matogueira
• Matomaior

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

References

• “mato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/

Noun

mato (plural mati)

1. mat, matting (of straw or other materials)

See also

• tapiso

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Ingrian

Noun

mato

1. snake

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Japanese

Romanization

mato

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːtɔ]

Verb

mãto

1. third-person singular and plural present of matyti

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• matu

Verb

mato

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀫𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• मतो (Devanagari script)
• মতো (Bengali script)
• මතො (Sinhalese script)
• မတော (Burmese script)
• มโต or มะโต (Thai script)
• ᨾᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ມໂຕ or ມະໂຕ (Lao script)
• មតោ (Khmer script)

Adjective

mato

1. masculine nominative singular of mata (“dead; thought”)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tu/
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Etymology 1

From mata.

Noun

mato m (plural matos)

1. (usually uncountable) forest; bush; jungle; woods (uncultivated area covered in wild plants)

   Synonym: mata (more formal)

2. (usually uncountable) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

   Synonym: capim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mato

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of matar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/, [ˈmat̪o]

Verb

mato

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of matar.

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian matto

Adjective

mato m (feminine singular mata, masculine plural mati, feminine plural mate)

1. crazy, mad
2. fake, abnormal

Noun

mano m (plural mani)

1. Hand-operated water pump