Cato

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.təʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia.

Cato

1. (rare) A male given name from Latin
2. A town and village in New York.
3. A town in Wisconsin.

From French Catherine. Used as a matronymic.

Cato

1. A surname from French.

• Cato Ridge

• ATOC, Cota, TACO, coat, octa, octa-, taco

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *katō, related to catus (“intelligent”) with individualizing suffix -on- (< PIE *-e/on-, the "Στράβων" suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.toː/, [ˈkät̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.to/, [ˈkäːt̪o]
• Homophone: cato

Catō m sg (genitive Catōnis); third declension

1. A cognomen, particularly a branch of the gens Porcia.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Căto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
    
• “Cato”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Căto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 276/1.
• “Catō” on page 286/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

From Latin Cato.

Cato

1. a male given name popular in the 1970s and 1980s