mato

From French marteau.

mato

1. hammer

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tu/

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative form of matar

From German Matte, Italian matta, English mat, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה‎ (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Additional cognates include French natte, Norwegian Bokmål matte, Swedish matta, Finnish matto, Portuguese and Spanish mata.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmato]
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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato (accusative singular maton, plural matoj, accusative plural matojn)

1. mat

• musmato (“mousepad”)

From Proto-Finnic *mato, probably an old loan from an Indo-Iranian language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑt̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧to

mato

1. worm
2. (computing) worm
3. (colloquial) maggot (soft, legless larva)
4. (colloquial) maggot (worthless person)
5. (informal) tilde

• moat, omat

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/

From a substrate language. Compare Portuguese mato and Spanish mata.

mato m (plural matos)

1. uncultivated land; woodland; heath
2. brushwood

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

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

Borrowed from English mat, German Matte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/
• Rhymes: -ato

mato (plural mati)

1. mat, matting (of straw or other materials)

• tapiso

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑd̥o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato

1. snake

   jaadukas mato ― venomous snake

2. (in compounds) worm

• (snake): maahiin
• (worm): matokkain

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 9

mato

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːtɔ]

mãto

1. third-person singular/plural present of matyti

• Borrowed from Hausa mota, ultimately from English motor, motorcar'
• Compare with Yoruba mọ́tò

• IPA^(key): /mã́.tò/

mátò (plural mátòzhì)

1. car

   Mátò na wáncí na à nì kíǹ. ― The big car will have an accident.

• matu

mato

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

mato

1. masculine nominative singular of mata (“dead; thought”)

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

From mata.

mato m (plural matos)

1. (usually uncountable) forest; bush; jungle; woods (uncultivated area covered in wild plants)

   Synonym: (more formal) mata

2. (usually uncountable) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

   Synonym: capim

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/ [ˈma.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ma‧to

mato m (plural matos)

1. bushes

mato

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

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

Compare Italian matto

mato m (feminine singular mata, masculine plural mati, feminine plural mate)

1. crazy, mad
2. fake, abnormal

Borrowed from Portuguese mato.

mato m (plural mati)

1. (Brazil) wild grass, weeds and other low-lying plants

From Proto-Finnic *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

mato

1. snake

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎, 2 edition, Tallinn

Possibly from East Makian matuo (“old (of people)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t̪o/

mato

1. (stative) to be old (of people)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics