prato

See also: Prato

Galician

prato (Sargadelos, 19th century)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prato, a semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”), from Proto-Hellenic *plətús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾato/ [ˈpɾa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

prato f (plural pratos)

1. dish, plate
2. dish, preparation; recipe
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     E pois eu doze perdizes,
     e de polos ducia e media
     lle hei de lebar se Deus quer,
     e se podo vnha Tenreyra,
     por ser prato regalado
     que se estima en calquer mesa.

     Then I twelve partridges
     and a dozen and a half chickens
     I ought to take, God willing,
     and if I can a calf [veal]
     because it is an enticing dish
     that is appreciated in any table.

Coordinate terms

• coitelo
• culler
• garfo
• tallador

Derived terms

• empratar

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “prato”, 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), “prato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “prato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin prātum (“meadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: prà‧to

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

prato m (plural prati or (Old Italian) pràtora)

1. grass, lawn (ground covered with grass kept closely mown)

   falciare il prato ― to mow the lawn

2. meadow

Derived terms

• prataiolo
• prateria
• prativo
• pratolina
• pratoso

Anagrams

• parto, porta, porta-, potrà, tarpo, tarpò

Latin

Noun

prātō

1. dative/ablative singular of prātum

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”), from Proto-Hellenic *plətús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us. Doublet of prata and *chato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: pra‧to

Noun

prato m (plural pratos)

1. dish, plate
   • 1435, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-39:

     Rematouse enno meestre a sartana e o prato de Davi por X

     Davi's pan and dish were auctioned to the Master

   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a:

     Dous barriis, quatro pichees destano, dous pratos destano e hun de madeira … Hun conqeiro con viinte et quatro conqas et seys pratos de madeira, et tres malladeras et hun enbudo

     Two barrels, four tin pitchers, two tin dishes and a wooden one … a cupboard with twenty-four cups and six wooden dishes, and three bowls for shucking and a funnel

Descendants

• Fala: pratu, platu
• Galician: prato
• Portuguese: prato (see there for further descendants)

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “prato”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “prato”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

prato

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prato, a semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”), from Proto-Hellenic *plətús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us. Doublet of the popularly inherited chato and the Hellenism plati-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾa.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾa.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾa.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾa.tu/

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: pra‧to

Noun

prato m (plural pratos)

1. plate
   1. a flat dish from which food is served or eaten
   2. a course at a meal
2. (music) cymbal

   Synonym: címbalo

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:prato.

Descendants

• → Annobonese: paatu
• → Bengali: পরাত (porat)
• → Língua Geral Amazônica: pratu
  • Nheengatu: paratú, paratu

Further reading

• “prato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “prato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026