fato – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of fato

Noun: fato
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mfato
Plural mfatos

Sample Sentences

  • E, durante muito tempo, fez-se um vaivém de mercadores. Apareceram os tabuleiros de carne fresca e outros de tripas e fatos de boi; só não vinham hortaliças, porque havia muitas roças no cortiço. [1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:]

Etymology

1. Uncertain, but possibly from a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat), likely from a Proto-Germanic root *fat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pēd- (“to grasp, seize”).
2. 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”); also Franco-Provençal fata (“pocket”), Galician fato (“herd”), Spanish hato (“bundle; animal herd; worker supplies; clique, gang”). See: German Nouns 'Fetzen', English Nouns 'fat', Galician Nouns 'fato', Spanish Nouns 'hato'.

Verbs referencing "fato"

Spanish Nouns hato, German Nouns Fetzen, Asturian Nouns fatu.

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