mato

See also: Mato, mató, Maťo, and máto

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

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

1. mat

Derived terms

• musmato (“mousepad”)

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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
• Syllabification: 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

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

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

• Matelo
• Mato
• Mato Grande
• matogueira
• Matomaior

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

Mato.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato (genitive maon, partitive mattoa)

1. snake

Declension

Declension of mato (type 4/koivu, t- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	mato	maot
genitive	maon	mattoin, matoloin
partitive	mattoa	mattoja, matoloja
illative	mattoo	mattoihe, matoloihe
inessive	maoos	maois, maolois
elative	maost	maoist, maoloist
allative	maolle	maoille, maoloille
adessive	maool	maoil, maoloil
ablative	maolt	maoilt, maoloilt
translative	maoks	maoiks, maoloiks
essive	matonna mattoon	matoinna, matoloinna mattoin, matoloin
exessive1)	matont	matoint, matoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

Chernyavskij's declension of mato
	singular	plural
nominative	mato	maot
genitive	maon	matoloin
partitive	mattooa	matoloja
illative	mattoo	matoloihe
inessive	maooz	matoloiz
elative	maost	matoloist
allative	maolle	matoloille
adessive	maool	matoloil
ablative	maolt	matoloilt
translative	maoks	matoloiks
essive	mattoon	matoloin
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎^[2], page 129
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 9

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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/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 or မတေႃ (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
• Rhymes: -atu

Etymology 1

From mata.

Noun

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mato

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/, [ˈma.t̪o]

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