hato

hato

1. Rōmaji transcription of はと: pigeon, dove.
2. Rōmaji transcription of ハト: pigeon, dove.

From Late Old Spanish hato (“clothes; herd”), originally *fato, from a Germanic language, possibly a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat); compare Old High German fazzōn (“to get dressed”), German Fetzen (“rag(s), scrap(s)”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“liquid container, vessel; vat”). Within Romance languages, compare Franco-Provençal fata (“pocket”), Galician fato (“herd”), Portuguese fato (“uniform, suit; animal entrails”). First attested in Juan Ruiz (14th century).

Coromines and Pascual suspect the Old Spanish term may have been further influenced by Arabic حَظّ (ḥaẓẓ, “one's share, portion”), particularly in the sense of "shepherds' supplies".

• IPA^(key): /ˈato/ [ˈa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ha‧to

hato m (plural hatos)

1. bundle of things, especially one containing clothes
2. supplies or provisions for shepherds, miners or other workers
3. herd, especially of sheep
4. clique, group of people
5. gang, a ring of people of bad intentions
6. (Latin America) cattle ranch
7. grassy place to rest with one's herd

• manada f
• rebaño m

• “hato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “hato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 326-328