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/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪o̞]
• 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 (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”).

• (Luutsa, 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