Translingual

Atta cephalotes

Proper noun

Atta f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Formicidae – the leaf-cutter ants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder; Formicoidea - superfamily; Formicidae - family; Myrmicinae - subfamily; Attini - tribe

Hyponyms

• See Atta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for species

English

Determiner

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा ‎(āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta ‎(uncountable)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

Anagrams

• ta ta, ta-ta, tata

Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta ‎(“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 ‎(attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 ‎(atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць ‎(otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα ‎(átta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

Noun

atta m ‎(genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Inflection

First declension.

References

• atta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ATTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “atta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• atta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• āta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ātta

1. eight

Descendants

• Swedish: åtta

Turkish

Noun

atta

1. singular locative of at