gato

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

• (standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɡatʊ]
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [ˈħatʊ]

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 528:

     Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures

     And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice

• Gato

• “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “gato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “gato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “gato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “gato” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

From French gateau.

• IPA^(key): /ɡàː.tôː/

gā̀tô m (possessed form gā̀tôn)

1. (Niger) cake

   Synonym: (Nigeria) kyât

From Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

gato m (Latin spelling, plural gatos)

1. cat

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

gato

1. nominative singular masculine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

From Old Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus; compare also catta, possibly of ultimately Afroasiatic origin. See the etymology at cat for further details.

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ga‧to

• Audio (Brazil)

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gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat (domestic cat: Felis silvestris catus)

   Synonyms: gato doméstico, gato caseiro

   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:

     [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.

     [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.

2. (by extension) feline, felid, cat

   Synonyms: felino, felídeo

3. one of a number of utensils made of iron or similar material used to fix objects
4. excess flesh on the upper part of riding animals

   Synonym: gato carnoso

5. (Brazil, slang) very handsome man

   Synonym: pão

6. (Brazil, slang) an illegal connection to use electricity or watch pay TV for free

   Synonym: gambiarra

7. (Brazil, slang) a petty thief

   Synonyms: gatuno, trombadinha

8. (Brazil, slang) truck driver who rents boias-frias to work on farming
9. (Alentejo) wineskin
10. (Trás-os-Montes) error, mistake

    Synonyms: erro, engano

11. (Trás-os-Montes) lie (deliberately false statement)

    Synonym: mentira

• gata
• gatão (augmentative)
• gatinho (diminutive)

• Annobonese: gatu
• Kabuverdianu: gátu
• →? Gulf Arabic: قطو‎ (gaṭu)

gato (feminine gata, masculine plural gatos, feminine plural gatas, comparable, comparative mais gato, superlative o mais gato or gatíssimo, diminutive gatinho, augmentative gatão)

1. (Brazil, informal, of a person) physically attractive

   Ela é muito gata. ― She is very beautiful.

   Synonyms: belo, bonito, giro

• “gato” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From French gâteau.

gato

1. cake

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡato/ [ˈɡa.t̪o]

• Audio (Spain)

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ga‧to

From Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat, Italian gatto, Portuguese gato). See cat for more.

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. cat (unspecified gender)

   Synonyms: felino, félido

2. tomcat, gib (male cat)
3. (Mexico) servant

   Synonyms: achichincle, servidor, sirviente, mozo, criado

4. C-clamp
5. jack (mechanical device)
6. (Mexico) tic-tac-toe

   Synonym: tres en línea

7. (colloquial) Madrilenian (a person from Madrid)

   Synonym: madrileño

8. (Costa Rica) person with blue or green eyes

From French gâteau.

gato m (plural gatos)

1. (Costa Rica) rectangular cake made of two layers joined by jam in the middle

From gatillar

gato m (plural gatos)

1. (obsolete, slang, Argentina) whoremonger
2. (vulgar, slang, Argentina) a prostitute woman

• gata

• “gato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• gota, toga

• gat (Dialectal)

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.to/
• Hyphenation: gàto

gato m (plural gati)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡatɔ/

• gadawo

gato

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of gadael

gato

1. Soft mutation of cato.