kato

kato

1. basket

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/, [ˈka.t̪ɔ]

Compare with kuto.

kato

1. dog tick

Unknown.

kato

1. that

   Synonym: kadto

Ultimately from Latin cattus, possibly a Wanderwort from an Afroasiatic or Uralic language. Compare French chat, English cat, Russian кот (kot), Yiddish קאַץ (kats), Italian gatto, German Katze, Polish kot.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkato]
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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

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

1. cat

   Hypernym: feliso (“member of the Felis genus”)

   Hyponyms: kateto (“a small cat”), (neologism) katiĉo (“a tom”), katido (“a kitten”), katino (“a female cat”), (idiomatic) virkato (“a tom”)

   Holonym: kataro (“a clowder of cats”)

   Meronym: kataĵo (“cat meat”)

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

From Proto-Finnic *kato, from the same root as *katodak (see kadota).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑto/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to

kato

1. failure of crops
2. loss, disappearance, lack (used primarily in compound terms)

   yleisökato ― lack or loss of audience

• kadota

• “kato”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtoˣ/, [ˈkɑ̝t̪o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧to

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.

• katso
• ka (colloquial)

kato (colloquial)

1. 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)

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

• kota, toka

Borrowed from Esperanto kato, Latin cattus, English cat, French chat, German Katze, Italian gatto, Russian кот (kot), Spanish gato.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Rhymes: -ato

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

kato

1. Rōmaji transcription of かと

IPA^(key): /ka.to/, [kɐ.tɔ]

kato

1. flow
2. current

kato

1. flowing (of the tide)
2. flooding (of the tide)

kato

1. basket

kato

1. nominative singular masculine of kata, which is past participle of karoti (“to do”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -atɔ
• Syllabification: ka‧to

kato f

1. vocative singular of kata

• cato — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtoʔ/, [kɐˈtoʔ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

katô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓ)

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

   Synonyms: kapilyuhan, kalokohan

3. (pathology) cyst in animal flesh

   Synonyms: kiste, kisto

4. synonym of balukanag

• “kato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018