mato

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See also: Mato, mató, Maťo, and máto

Antillean Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French marteau.

Noun[edit]

mato

  1. hammer

Asturian[edit]

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of matar

Esperanto[edit]

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Etymology[edit]

From German Matte, Italian matta, English mat, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה‎ (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Additional cognates include French natte, Norwegian Bokmål matte, Swedish matta, Finnish matto, Portuguese and Spanish mata.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmato]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun[edit]

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

  1. mat

Derived terms[edit]

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mato

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

Declension[edit]

Inflection of mato (Kotus type 1*F/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
Possessive forms of mato (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person matoni matomme
2nd person matosi matonne
3rd person matonsa

Derived terms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mato m (plural matos)

  1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
  2. brushwood
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

References[edit]

  • “mato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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.

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mato (plural mati)

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

See also[edit]

Ingrian[edit]

Mato.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mato

  1. snake
    jaadukas mato ― venomous snake
  2. (in compounds) worm

Declension[edit]

Declension of mato (type 4/koivu, t- gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative mato maot
genitive maon mattoin, matoloin
partitive mattoa matoja, matoloja
illative mattoo mattoi, matoloihe
inessive maos matois, matolois
elative maost matoist, matoloist
allative maolle matoille, matoloille
adessive maol matoil, matoloil
ablative maolt matoilt, matoloilt
translative maoks matoiks, matoloiks
essive matonna, mattoon matoinna, matoloinna, mattoin, matoloin
exessive1) matont matoint, matoloint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[2], →ISBN, page 9

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mato

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

Lithuanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mãto

  1. third-person singular/plural present of matyti

Nupe[edit]

Mátò na nì kíǹ na.

Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mátò (plural mátòzhì)

  1. car
    Mátò na wáncí na à nì kíǹ. ― The big car will have an accident.

Derived terms[edit]

Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative forms

Adjective[edit]

mato

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

Portuguese[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -atu
  • Hyphenation: ma‧to

Etymology 1[edit]

From mata.

Noun[edit]

mato m (plural matos)

  1. (usually uncountable) forest; bush; jungle; woods (uncultivated area covered in wild plants)
    Synonym: (more formal) mata
  2. (usually uncountable) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants
    Synonym: capim

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of matar; "I kill"

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmato/ [ˈma.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun[edit]

mato m (plural matos)

  1. bushes

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Further reading[edit]

Venetian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Compare Italian matto

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. crazy, mad
  2. fake, abnormal

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Portuguese mato.

Noun[edit]

mato m (plural mati)

  1. (Brazil) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

Votic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

mato

  1. snake

References[edit]

  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[3], 2 edition, Tallinn

Inflection[edit]

Declension of mato (type II/võrkko, t- gradation)
singular plural
nominative mato maod
genitive mao matojõ, matoi
partitive mattoa matoitõ, matoi
illative matto, mattosõ matoisõ
inessive maoz matoiz
elative maossõ matoissõ
allative maolõ matoilõ
adessive maollõ matoillõ
ablative maoltõ matoiltõ
translative maossi matoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

West Makian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from East Makian matuo (“old (of people)”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mato

  1. (stative) to be old (of people)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of mato (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person timato mimato amato
2nd person nimato fimato
3rd person inanimate imato dimato
animate mamato
imperative —, mato —, mato

References[edit]

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[4], Pacific linguistics
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