fato

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fato. Probably from Proto-Germanic *fatą:^[1] compare Old High German faz (“container; vessel”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“container; vessel; vat”).

Etymology 2

From Latin fatuus (“foolish”).

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fato”, 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), “fato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

Borrowed from English fate, Italian fato, and further borrowed from French fatal, German fatal, Russian фата́льный (fatálʹnyj), Spanish fatal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

Noun

fato (plural fati)

1. fate, lot

See also

• destino (“destiny”)

Etymology

From Latin factus.

Adjective

fato

1. done, made

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fà‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin fātum.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fātō

1. dative/ablative neuter singular of fatum

Participle

fātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fātus

Etymology

From Latin factum.

Noun

fato m (plural fatos)

1. fact (sometimes which is real)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

Etymology 1

Uncertain, but possibly from a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat),^[1] likely from a Proto-Germanic root *fat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pēd- (“to grasp, seize”).

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”).

Etymology 2

Alteration of facto, from Latin factum. Doublet of feito.

Etymology 3

Unknown, but likely ultimately from Arabic [Term?].

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfato]

Noun

fato f

1. vocative singular of fată

Adjective

fato (feminine fata, masculine plural fatos, feminine plural fatas)

1. Alternative spelling of fatuo

Further reading

• “fato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.to]

Verb

fato

1. (transitive) to align, put in a row, put side by side
2. (transitive) to order, arrange

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh