Noun: gato
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gato |
| Singular f | gata |
| Plural m | gatos |
| Plural f | gatas |
Sample Sentences
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Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures (And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 528:]
Nouns inflected like gato
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
gato'.
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