recato

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈka.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: re‧cà‧to

Participle

recato (feminine recata, masculine plural recati, feminine plural recate)

1. past participle of recare

Anagrams

• atroce, carote, cerato, cerato-, corate, cortea, creato, croate, tacerò, torace

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈka.tu/ [heˈka.tu], /ʁiˈka.tu/ [hiˈka.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈka.tu/ [heˈka.tu], /ʁiˈka.tu/ [hiˈka.tu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈka.tu/ [χeˈka.tu], /ʁiˈka.tu/ [χiˈka.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈka.to/ [heˈka.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈka.tu/

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: re‧ca‧to

Noun

recato m (plural recatos)

1. modesty, reservation
2. caution
3. secret
4. hideout

Related terms

• recatado
• recatar

Further reading

• “recato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “recato” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “recato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈkato/ [reˈka.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: re‧ca‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from recatar.

Noun

recato m (plural recatos)

1. modesty, reservation

Etymology 2

Verb

recato

1. first-person singular present indicative of recatar

Further reading

• “recato”, 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