tata

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

tata

1. Alternative form of ta ta

Probably ultimately from baby-talk and related to teat, tit. Possibly borrowed through French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

tata (plural tatas)

1. (slang) Alternative form of ta-ta (“breast”)

• atta

tata

1. paternal aunt

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /tɑtɑ/

tata

1. pig

• Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /taˈta/

tatá

1. (uncommon) door

   Synonyms: puwerta, pinto

Compare tatay.

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtata/, [ˈt̪a.t̪ʌ]
• Rhymes: -a

tata

1. a familiar address to one's father

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /taˈta/, [t̪ʌˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a

tata

1. (childish) a familiar address to a child

Compare tastas

• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔtataʔ/, [ˈʔt̪ʌ.t̪ʌʔ]
• Rhymes: -a

tata

1. to wear out

tata

1. father.

tata

1. father

tata

1. father

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.ta]

tata (animate)

1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1.

     Taita. padre delos niños. tata.

     Taita. the children's father. tata.

   • Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.

     Tata. por tayta,padre [dize el niño.]

     Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

• tahtli

• Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

tata

1. elder sister

Expressive variant of tante (“aunt”)

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta/

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tata f (plural tatas)

1. (childish) auntie

   Les enfants, aujourd'hui on va voir tata !

   Kids, today we're going to see auntie!

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

• “tata”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tata

1. fire

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒtɒ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

tata (plural taták)

1. (possibly offensive) uncle, old man, fogey (used to speak of or address old men humorously or disparagingly)
2. (informal, dialectal) father, dad

• tata in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Malay tata, from Javanese tata, from Pali tathā (“in this way”), from Sanskrit तथा (tathā, “in that manner”). Doublet of titi.

• Semantic loan from Dutch ordening (“tidying up, bringing in order”).
• Semantic loan from English system.

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.ta]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

tata (first-person possessive tataku, second-person possessive tatamu, third-person possessive tatanya)

1. order
2. arrangement
3. system

• “tata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin tata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: tà‧ta

tata f (plural tate)

1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
2. big sister

• atta

tata

1. (to put) in an orderly arrangement.

From Proto-Italic *tata, from Proto-Indo-European *tata-, ultimately onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk.

Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/, [ˈt̪ät̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/, [ˈt̪äːt̪ä]

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

1. dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

First-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: tatã, tati
  • Megleno-Romanian: tată
  • Romanian: tată (“father, dad”)
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: tuota, teta
  • Italian: tata
    • → Cimbrian: tatta
    • → Mòcheno: tata
  • Neapolitan: tata
• Old Occitan:
  • Old Catalan: taita (“dad”)
    • Catalan: tata (“dad, brother”) (dialectal)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: tat (“grandfather”) (dialectal)
• West Iberian:
  • Portuguese: tatá
  • Old Spanish: taita (“dad”)
    • Spanish: tata, tato, taita

• “tata”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

tata class 1 (plural batata class 2)

1. father
2. man

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [tˠɑːdˠɑ], (enunciated) [tˠɑ tˠɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠæɰtˠæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {tahtah}

tata

1. superlative particle; most

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /tata/

From Tamil தாத்தா (tāttā).

tata

1. grandfather

   Synonym: granper

From kaka, from French caca.

tata

1. (usually childish) poo, excrement

tata (medial form tata)

1. (usually childish) to poo, defecate

Cognate with Guaraní tata.

tata

1. fire

From Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin.

tata m

1. father

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “tata” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Latin tata.

tata

1. father, dad

• papa, pate

From Spanish tata.

tata

1. father

-tata

1. to hurry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ta‧ta

tata m pers

1. (informal) dad

   Synonyms: tato, ojciec

• tata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

tata

1. mister
2. father

• jatun tata

Compare Tagalog tatay.

tata

1. father

• IPA^(key): [tʰata]

tata

1. to gather

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “tata”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 46

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

• IPA^(key): /tâta/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

tȁta m (Cyrillic spelling та̏та)

1. dad, daddy

• ćaća

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tata (Cyrillic spelling тата)

1. genitive/accusative singular of tat

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

• IPA^(key): /tâːtḁ/

tata m

1. dad, father

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

• IPA^(key): /ˈtata/ [ˈt̪a.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ta‧ta

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, Latin America, Philippines) daddy; dad, a term used by children for their father
2. (colloquial) nanny

   Synonyms: niñera, criada

3. (colloquial, Chile) grandfather, a term used by children for their grandfather

   Synonym: abuelo

• nana

Feminine form of tato.

tata f (plural tatas, masculine tato, masculine plural tatos)

1. (colloquial) big sister

From teta.

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

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

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

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-tata (infinitive kutata)

1. to tangle