Tato
See also: tato
English
Galician
Etymology
From tato (“stutterer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtato̝/
References
- “Tato” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: Ta‧to
Proper noun
el Tato m
- a male given name
- a name used in various expressions, used to express that nobody does a certain thing
- No le va a votar ni el Tato.
- Not a single person is going to vote for him.
- (literally, “Not even "the Tato" is going to vote for him.”)
Further reading
- “Tato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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