Noun: rato
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rato |
| Singular f | rata |
| Plural m | ratos |
| Plural f | ratas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rato
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse. See: Galician Nouns '
rato', Spanish Nouns '
ratón', Old Portuguese Nouns '
mur'.
Verbs referencing "rato"
English Nouns
rat.
Translations