atta

See also: Atta, attá, átta, attā, åtta, and attą̊

English

Etymology 1

Determiner

atta

  1. that's the; that's a
Usage notes

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (uncountable)

  1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:
      Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

atta

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

Adjective

atta

  1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

Pronunciation

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

  1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative atta attae
genitive attae attārum
dative attae attīs
accusative attam attās
ablative attā attīs
vocative atta attae

References

  • atta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • atta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ātta

  1. eight

Descendants

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

atta ?

  1. ego (clarification of this definition is needed)

Turkish

Noun

atta

  1. singular locative of at
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