Noun: gato
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gato |
| Singular f | gata |
| Plural m | gatos |
| Plural f | gatas |
Sample Sentences
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[...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione. (… the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.) [2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:]
Nouns inflected like gato
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 Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattum; compare also catta, possibly of ultimately Afroasiatic origin. See the etymology at cat for further details. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
gato'.
Verbs referencing "gato"
Spanish Nouns
gato.
Translations