English

Proper noun

Kato

1. group of Native American people in the United States.
2. the language of that people.

Cebuano

Noun

kato

1. dog tick

Etymology 2

Undetermined

Adverb

kato

1. that

Esperanto

katoj

Etymology

From Dutch kat, English cat, Spanish gato, German Katze, Russian кот ‎(kot), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkato/
• Hyphenation: ka‧to

Noun

kato ‎(accusative singular katon, plural katoj, accusative plural katojn)

1. cat

Derived terms

• katherbo ‎(“catnip”)
• mustelkato ‎(“a stone-marten”)

Hyponyms

• kateto ‎(“a small cat”)
• katiĉo ‎(“a tom”) (neologism)
• katido ‎(“a kitten”)
• katino ‎(“a female cat”)
• virkato ‎(“a tom”) (idiomatic)

Hypernyms

• feliso ‎(“member of the Felis genus”)

Meronyms

• kataĵo ‎(“cat meat”)

Holonyms

• kataro ‎(“a clowder of cats”)

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *kaðʲa- ‎(“to leave”). Cognates are found in almost every Uralic language, e.g. Northern Sami guođđit ‎(“to leave something, to depart”), Skolt Sami kue´đđed ‎(“to leave smth”), Moksha кадомс ‎(kadoms, “to leave”), Eastern Mari кодаш ‎(kodaš, “to stay”), Udmurt кыльыны ‎(kylʹyny, “to stay”), Hungarian hagy ‎(“to let, to leave”), Mansi хули ‎(“to leave”), Selkup [script needed] ‎(/quəčə-/, “to leave”). Labialization of the stem vowel occurred in Proto-Finnic, compare Estonian kadu ‎(“loss”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑto]

Noun

kato

1. Failure of crops.
2. Loss, disappearance, lack; used primarily in compound terms.

   yleisökato = lack or loss of audience

Declension

Derived terms

• verbs: kadota

Compounds

• katokorvaus
• katovahinko
• katovuosi
• kulmakarvakato
• silmäripsikato
• yleisökato

Etymology 2

A dialectal or colloquial 2nd person imperative present of katsoa ‎(“to look”). The corresponding infinitive is kattoa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑto
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑtoˣ]

Verb

kato

1. (colloquial) look!

   Kato, tuolla on George! — Look, there's George!

2. (colloquial) see (used often with ny)

   Kato ny, mähän sanoin. — See, I told you so.

Synonyms

• katso

Interjection

kato

1. (colloquial) see or look.
   • Se on kato sillä lailla.
     • See, that’s the way it is.
   • Kato nääs! or Kato kato!
     • Literally: Look, look!. Uttered in surprise, not necessarily telling anyone to look anywhere.
   • ...kato nääs. or ...kato.
     • ...you see. (At the end of a sentence)

Synonyms

• katsos, näet, nimittäin

See also

• niinku
• nääs
• tiäksä

Anagrams

• kota, toka

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto kato, from Latin cattus.

Noun

kato (plural kati)

1. cat

Japanese

Romanization

kato

1. rōmaji reading of かと

Niuean

Noun

kato

1. basket

Novial

Etymology

kate +‎ -o (masculine nominal suffix).

Noun

kato ‎(plural katos)

1. tomcat, male cat

Coordinate terms

• kata ‎(“female cat”)

Hypernyms

• kate ‎(“cat”)

Tagalog

Noun

katô

1. blood-sucking mite or tick that commonly infects animals like horses or cows
2. (figuratively) spurt of mischief or naughtiness