ratte

• Ratte

ratte (plural rattes)

1. A kind of small potato with a nutty flavour and smooth, buttery texture.

• Treat, atter, tater, teart, tetra, tetra-, treat

• IPA^(key): /ˈrat.te/
• Rhymes: -atte
• Hyphenation: ràt‧te

ratte

1. feminine plural of ratto

ratte

1. vocative singular of rattus

From Old Dutch *rato, *roto, from Frankish *ratt, *rato, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”). Related to Old High German rato.

ratte f

1. rat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: rat
  • Afrikaans: rot
  • Jersey Dutch: rot
  • Negerhollands: rotto, roto
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: roto (dated)
  • →? Kari'na: alata (via Sranantongo, possibly from Spanish)
  • →? Saramaccan: alátu (possibly from Spanish)
• Limburgish: rat

• “ratte”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ratte”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• raat, rat, ratt, rotte

From Old English ræt (possibly alongside a collateral form *ratta), from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, *ratō, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrat(ə)/

ratte (plural rattes)

1. rat

   Synonym: ratoun

• English: rat

• “rat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-14.

From the noun ratt (“steering wheel”).

ratte (imperative ratt, present tense ratter, passive rattes, simple past and past participle ratta or rattet, present participle rattende)

1. to steer, drive (a vehicle)

• styre

• “ratte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ratte” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From the noun ratt (“steering wheel”).

ratte (present tense rattar, past tense ratta, past participle ratta, passive infinitive rattast, present participle rattande, imperative ratte/ratt)

1. to steer, drive (a vehicle)

• ratta

• styre, styra

• “ratte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.