Tato

See also: tato

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Georgian ტატო (ṭaṭo) or Spanish Tato.

Proper noun

Tato (plural Tatos)

1. A male given name from Georgian.
2. A male given name from Spanish.

Galician

Etymology

From tato (“stutterer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato̝/

Proper noun

Tato

1. a surname

References

• “Tato” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: Ta‧to

Proper noun

el Tato m

1. a male given name
2. a name used in various expressions, used to express that nobody does a certain thing

   No le va a votar ni el Tato.

   Not a single person is going to vote for him.

   (literally, “Not even "the Tato" is going to vote for him.”)

Further reading

• “Tato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28