kato

See also: Kato, katõ, katō, and Katō

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Compare with kuto.

Noun

kato

  1. dog tick

Etymology 2

Undetermined

Adverb

kato

  1. that

Esperanto

katoj

Etymology

Borrowed from French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ‎‎‎ (kats‎‎), Italian gatto, German Katze, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkato/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧to
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Audio:
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Noun

kato (accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

  1. cat

Hypernyms

  • feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

Hyponyms

Meronyms

Holonyms

Derived terms

  • katherbo (“catnip”)
  • mustelkato (“a stone-marten”)

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *kaďa- (“to leave”). Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit (“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed (“to leave smth”), Moksha кадомс (kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш (kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны (kylʹyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy (“to let, to leave”), Mansi хули (“to leave”), Selkup [Term?] (/quəčə-/, “to leave”). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu (“loss”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧to
  • Rhymes: -ɑto
  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑto]

Noun

kato

  1. Failure of crops.
  2. Loss, disappearance, lack; used primarily in compound terms.
    yleisökato = lack or loss of audience
Declension
Inflection of kato (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative kato kadot
genitive kadon katojen
partitive katoa katoja
illative katoon katoihin
singular plural
nominative kato kadot
accusative nom. kato kadot
gen. kadon
genitive kadon katojen
partitive katoa katoja
inessive kadossa kadoissa
elative kadosta kadoista
illative katoon katoihin
adessive kadolla kadoilla
ablative kadolta kadoilta
allative kadolle kadoille
essive katona katoina
translative kadoksi kadoiksi
instructive — kadoin
abessive kadotta kadoitta
comitative — katoineen
Derived terms
Compounds

Etymology 2

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa (“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧to
  • Rhymes: -ɑto
  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑtoˣ]

Verb

kato

  1. (colloquial) look!
    Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!
  2. (colloquial) see (used often with ny)
    Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.
Synonyms

Interjection

kato

  1. (colloquial) see or look.
    • Se on kato sillä lailla.
      • See, that’s the way it is.
    • Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
      • Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
    • Kato nääs, säkin olet saapunut paikalle.
      • Lo and behold, you have arrived on the scene, too.
    • ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
      • ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)
Synonyms

See also

Anagrams

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto kato, from Latin cattus.

Noun

kato (plural kati)

  1. cat

Japanese

Romanization

kato

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

Niuean

Noun

kato

  1. basket

Novial

Etymology

kate +‎ -o (masculine nominal suffix).

Noun

kato m (plural katos)

  1. tomcat, male cat

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

Tagalog

Noun

katô

  1. blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
  2. (figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness
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