Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Antillean Creole terms inherited from French#MATOCategory:Antillean Creole terms derived from French#MATO marteau.

Noun

matoCategory:Antillean Creole lemmas#MATOCategory:Antillean Creole nouns#MATOCategory:Antillean Creole entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. hammer

Verb

matoCategory:Asturian non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Asturian verb forms#MATOCategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈma.tu]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈma.to]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Verb

matoCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Catalan verb forms#MATOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. first-person singular present indicative of matar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bãˈto/Category:Cubeo terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Noun

matoCategory:Cubeo lemmas#MATOCategory:Cubeo nouns#MATOCategory:Cubeo entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. cassava dough (resulted from grating and washing the cassava).

See also

References

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "mato", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

Etymology

From GermanCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from German#MATOCategory:Esperanto terms derived from German#MATO Matte, ItalianCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from Italian#MATOCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Italian#MATO matta, EnglishCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from English#MATOCategory:Esperanto terms derived from English#MATO mat, from Late LatinCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Late Latin#MATO matta, from PunicCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Punic#MATO or PhoenicianCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Phoenician#MATO (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)). Additional cognates include French natte, Norwegian Bokmål matte, Swedish matta, Finnish matto, Portuguese and Spanish mata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#MATOCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -atoCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ato#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ato/2 syllables#MATO
• Syllabification: ma‧to

Noun

mato (accusative singular maton, plural matoj, accusative plural matojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#MATOCategory:Esperanto nouns#MATOCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. mat

Further reading

• “mato”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mato”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#MATOCategory:Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic#MATO *mato (compare Estonian madu (“snake”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-IranianCategory:Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian#MATO *mákš ~ *mačás.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪o̞]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#MATOCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -ɑtoCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑto#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑto/2 syllables#MATO
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧to

Noun

matoCategory:Finnish lemmas#MATOCategory:Finnish nouns#MATOCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. worm (animal)
2. (colloquialCategory:Finnish colloquialisms#MATO) maggot (soft, legless larva)
3. (colloquialCategory:Finnish colloquialisms#MATO) maggot (worthless person)
4. (informalCategory:Finnish informal terms#MATO) tilde

   Synonym: aaltoviiva

5. (computingCategory:fi:Computing#MATO) worm (a type of malware that spreads between computers autonomously, i.e. without user intervention)
6. (dialectalCategory:Finnish dialectal terms#MATO) synonym of käärme (“snake”)

References

Further reading

• “mato”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Anagrams

• moat, omat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato̝/Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Etymology 1

From a substrateCategory:Galician terms derived from substrate languages#MATO language. Compare Portuguese mato and Spanish mata.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mato”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms inherited from French#MATOCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#MATO marteau.

Noun

matoCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#MATOCategory:Haitian Creole nouns#MATOCategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. hammer

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 126

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Ido terms borrowed from English#MATOCategory:Ido terms derived from English#MATO mat, GermanCategory:Ido terms borrowed from German#MATOCategory:Ido terms derived from German#MATO Matte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -atoCategory:Rhymes:Ido/ato#MATO

Noun

matoCategory:Ido lemmas#MATOCategory:Ido nouns#MATOCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO (plural mati)

1. mat, matting (of straw or other materials)

See also

• tapiso

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Ingrian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#MATOCategory:Ingrian terms derived from Proto-Finnic#MATO *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto̞ˑ]Category:Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑd̥o̞ˑ]Category:Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -ɑtoCategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/ɑto#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/ɑto/2 syllables#MATO
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

matoCategory:Ingrian lemmas#MATOCategory:Ingrian nouns#MATOCategory:Ingrian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. snake

   jaadukas mato ― venomous snakeCategory:Ingrian terms with collocations#MATO

2. (in compounds) worm

References

• 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

Romanization

matoCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Japanese romanizations#MATOCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#MATOCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. Rōmaji transcription of まと

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Karelian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#MATOCategory:Karelian terms derived from Proto-Finnic#MATO *mato. Cognates include Finnish mato and Veps mado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/Category:Karelian terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

mato (genitive mavon, partitive matuo)Category:Karelian lemmas#MATOCategory:Karelian nouns#MATOCategory:Karelian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. (North KarelianCategory:North Karelian#MATO) worm
2. (North KarelianCategory:North Karelian#MATO, dialectalCategory:Karelian dialectal terms#MATO) synonym of kiärmis (“snake”)

References

• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “mato”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

Noun

matoCategory:Lakota lemmas#MATOCategory:Lakota nouns#MATOCategory:Lakota entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. alternative spelling of matȟó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːtɔ]Category:Lithuanian 2-syllable words#MATOCategory:Lithuanian terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Verb

mãtoCategory:Lithuanian non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Lithuanian verb forms#MATOCategory:Lithuanian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. third-person singular/plural present of matyti (“to see”)

Noun

mãtoCategory:Lithuanian non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Lithuanian noun forms#MATOCategory:Lithuanian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. genitive singular of mãtas (“measure”)

Etymology

From Proto-PolynesianCategory:Māori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian#MATOCategory:Māori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian#MATO *mato (“precipice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/ [ˈmɐtɔ]Category:Māori terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Noun

matoCategory:Māori lemmas#MATOCategory:Māori nouns#MATOCategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. deep swamp, deep valley

Further reading

• “mato” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Etymology

From Proto-MalayicCategory:Minangkabau terms inherited from Proto-Malayic#MATOCategory:Minangkabau terms derived from Proto-Malayic#MATO *mata, from Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Minangkabau terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#MATOCategory:Minangkabau terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#MATO *mata, from Proto-AustronesianCategory:Minangkabau terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian#MATOCategory:Minangkabau terms derived from Proto-Austronesian#MATO *maCa.

Noun

matoCategory:Minangkabau lemmas#MATOCategory:Minangkabau nouns#MATOCategory:Minangkabau entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. eye (organ)

References

• Kamus Minangkabau - Indonesia [Minangkabau - Indonesian Dictionary]‎ (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, 1985, page 191

Etymology

• Borrowed from HausaCategory:Nupe terms borrowed from Hausa#MATOCategory:Nupe terms derived from Hausa#MATO mota, ultimately from EnglishCategory:Nupe terms derived from English#MATO motor, motorcar'
• Compare with Yoruba mọ́tò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mã́.tò/Category:Nupe terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Noun

mátòCategory:Nupe lemmas#MATOCategory:Nupe nouns#MATOCategory:Nupe entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO (plural mátòzhì)

1. car

   Mátò na wáncí na à nì kíǹ. ― The big car will have an accident.Category:Nupe terms with usage examples#MATO

Alternative forms

• matu

Verb

matoCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Old Irish verb forms#MATOCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. third-person plural present indicative of masu

Alternative forms

Adjective

matoCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#MATOCategory:Pali adjective forms#MATOCategory:Pali adjective forms in Latin script#MATOCategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. masculine nominative singular of mata (“dead; thought”)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Portugal):

  (file)

  Category:Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation#MATO

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

  Category:Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -atuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/atu#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/atu/2 syllables#MATO
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Etymology 1

From mata.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “mato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mato”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Noun

mato (plural âmato)Category:Sango lemmas#MATOCategory:Sango nouns#MATOCategory:Sango entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. proverb, adage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmato/ [ˈma.t̪o]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MATOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -atoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ato#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ato/2 syllables#MATO
• Syllabification: ma‧to

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#MATO macto

Further reading

• “mato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Etymology 1

Compare Italian matto

Etymology 2

Borrowed from PortugueseCategory:Venetan terms borrowed from Portuguese#MATOCategory:Venetan terms derived from Portuguese#MATO mato.

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Votic terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#MATOCategory:Votic terms derived from Proto-Finnic#MATO *mato (“worm”). Cognates include Finnish mato (“worm”) and Estonian madu (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑto/, [ˈmɑto]Category:Votic terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO
• Rhymes: -ɑtoCategory:Rhymes:Votic/ɑto#MATOCategory:Rhymes:Votic/ɑto/2 syllables#MATO
• Hyphenation: ma‧to

Noun

matoCategory:Votic lemmas#MATOCategory:Votic nouns#MATOCategory:Votic entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. snake

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “mato”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎, 2nd edition, Tallinn

Etymology

Possibly from TabaCategory:West Makian terms derived from Taba#MATO matuo (“old (of people)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t̪o/Category:West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation#MATO

Verb

matoCategory:West Makian lemmas#MATOCategory:West Makian verbs#MATOCategory:West Makian entries with incorrect language header#MATOCategory:Pages with entries#MATOCategory:Pages with 25 entries#MATO

1. (stativeCategory:West Makian stative verbs#MATO) to be old (of people)

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics