pato

Borrowed from Spanish pato (literally “duck”), since it was originally played with a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball.

pato (uncountable)

1. The national sport of Argentina, a game played on horseback that combines elements of polo and basketball.

• POTA, atop

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

• Hyphenation: pa‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/

páto

1. duck

   Synonym: itik

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

• Hyphenation: pa‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/, [ˈpa.t̪ʊ]

páto

1. a duck; any member of the ducks form taxon in the family "Anatidae"

• atop, otap, tapo, taop

Borrowed from Spanish pato.

pato

1. duck

From Spanish pato (“duck”).

pato

1. duck

• IPA^(key): [ˈpato]

pato f

1. vocative singular of pata

From Latin patella.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpato]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato (accusative singular paton, plural patoj, accusative plural patojn)

1. pan

From Proto-Finnic *pato, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *padɜ. Cognates include Erzya падо (pado).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑto/, [ˈpɑt̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧to

pato

1. dam, dike

• paot

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pato (13th century, Alfonso X), of onomatopoeic origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatʊ]

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck; drake

   Synonyms: lavanco, parro, parrulo

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

pato

1. dam

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

pato

1. duck

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.to/, [ˈpɐto]
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato

1. duck

From Old Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ‎ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بت‎ (bat, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck
2. (specifically) drake (male duck)
3. (Brazil, figuratively) a naïve person

• patinho

• Kabuverdianu: patu
• Tok Pisin: pato
• → Telugu: బాతు (bātu)

Borrowed from Romanian pat (“bed”).

pato m (plural patura)

1. bed

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”). Cognate of Tagalog pato.

pato

1. duck

• tamai pato (“duckling”)

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (páṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بت‎ (bat, “duck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/ [ˈpa.t̪o]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: pa‧to

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

1. duck, drake

   Synonym: ánade

   Hypernym: anseriforme

   Coordinate terms: ánsar, barnacla, cisne, ganso, oca, porrón, serreta

2. (vulgar, slang, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Puerto Rico) homosexual, faggot

   Synonyms: marica, marico, maricón, puto

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

• Audio (Kenya)

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pato (ma class, plural mapato)

1. acquisition
2. achievement
3. earning

Borrowed from Spanish pato (“duck”), from Arabic بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بت‎ (bat, “duck”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈpato/, [ˈpa.to]

pato (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜆᜓ)

1. duck

• “pato”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

pato

1. break out

From Portuguese pato.

pato

1. duck

• pato man

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t̪o/

pato

1. (transitive) to strike (with an instrument)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics