pat

See also: Pat, PAT, pAt, p3t, -pat, рат, and päť

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæt/, [pʰæt], enPR: pǎt
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.

Noun

pat (plural pats)

  1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
  2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
  3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
    • Charles Dickens
      It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
Derived terms
  • pat on the back (n.)
  • patter
  • pitter-pat: a diminutive of footfalls. "the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house."
Translations
See also
  • one one's pat

Verb

pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)

  1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
    To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
    • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22
      He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
  2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
    I patted the cookie dough into shape.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
      Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
    Do you want to pat the cat?
  4. To gently rain.
Derived terms
Translations
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Adjective

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

  1. timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken
    a pat expression
    • 1788, Cowper, Pity for Africans, p 18
      A story so pat, you may think it is coined.
  2. trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality
    • 2010, New York Times, Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.
      The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.
Derived terms
  • pat hand

Adverb

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

  1. opportunely, in a timely or suitable way
    • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet III.iii
      Now might I do it pat
  2. perfectly
    He has the routine down pat.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

pat (plural pats)

  1. patent
  2. (knitting) pattern
    • 2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World (page 52)
      Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder […]

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *patiō, from Latin patior. Compare Daco-Romanian păți.

Verb

pat (past participle pãtsitã)

  1. I experience, undergo (something bad, unpleasant, unexpected, etc.)
  • pãtsiri/pãtsire
  • pãtsit

Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Bunun

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Central Melanau

Central Melanau cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : pat

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of pat – see 捌 (“an [[:w:Chinese numbers; toothless rake; etc.”).
(This character, pat, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 捌.)

Chuukese

Adjective

pat

  1. cold

Czech

Etymology

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat/

Noun

pat m

  1. (chess) stalemate
  2. stalemate (blocked situation)

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pat
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

Noun

pat n (uncountable)

  1. (chess) tie, draw, stalemate

Derived terms

  • patstelling

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat/

Noun

pat m (plural pats)

  1. (chess) stalemate

Descendants

Further reading

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰaːt/
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Noun

pat n (genitive singular pats, no plural)

  1. gesticulation, gesture

Declension

Anagrams

Indonesian

Indonesian cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : pat

Etymology

From Malay pat, shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əmpat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. Alternative form of empat

Javanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Javanese pat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Lamaholot

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Latvian

Particle

pat

  1. even

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Estonian patt.

Noun

pat

  1. sin

Maguindanao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Maia

Noun

pat

  1. stone

Malay

Malay cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : pat

Alternative forms

Etymology

Shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əmpat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat/
  • Rhymes: -pat, -at

Numeral

pat (Jawi spelling ڤت)

  1. Alternative form of empat

Descendants

  • Indonesian: pat

Manggarai

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

pat m anim

  1. (chess) stalemate

Declension

Puyuma

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Rejang Kayan

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Rembong

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pat

  1. (cardinal) four

Romanian

Etymology

Often thought to be from Greek πάτος (pátos, “path”), but also possibly from Latin pactum (“fastened, fixed, planted”), with the loss of the -p- in the normal result, *papt, explicable through dissimilation from the initial consonant; compare păta, boteza. [2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat/

Noun

pat n (plural paturi)

  1. bed

Declension

References

  1. ↑ pat in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
  2. ↑ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

References

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French pat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpat/

Noun

pat m (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (chess) stalemate

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Volapük

Etymology

From French particularité.

Noun

pat (plural pats)

  1. particularity

Declension

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