fato

Ultimately derived from Latin fātum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: fa‧to

fato (accusative singular faton, plural fatoj, accusative plural fatojn)

1. synonym of fatalo (“fate”) (that which predetermines events)

• “fato”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

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”).

fato m (plural fatos)

1. bundle of things, especially one containing clothes
2. supplies or provisions for shepherds (usually carried in a bundle)
3. herd, flock, group

   Os desa vila non son máis que un fato de borrachos!

   That town's people are but a group of drunkards!

   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 134:

     Jupiter se fezo caudillo da grey -et grey se entende aqui por ovellas ou grey de fato dellas, et caudillo por carneyro

     Jupiter became leader of the flock - and flock here means sheep or flock of group of them, and leader means ram

• afatar (“to harness, rig; to gather, put togther”)
• fatelo (“piece of clothing”)

Inherited from Latin fatuus (“foolish”).

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

1. foolish, fatuous
2. annoying

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fato”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

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

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

fato (plural fati)

1. fate, lot

• destino (“destiny”)

From Latin factus.

fato

1. done, made

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

Inherited from Latin fātum.

fato m (plural fati)

1. fate, destiny

• fatidico

• fato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fatare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.to]

fātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fātus

fātō

1. dative/ablative singular of fātum

Derived from Latin factum.

fato m (plural fatos)

1. fact sometimes which is real

• de fato

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

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”).

fato m (plural fatos)

1. a set of clothing traditionally worn together, such as a uniform or national costume

   Synonym: traje

2. (Portugal) suit (formal clothing, male or female)

   Synonym: (Brazil) terno

3. (Portugal) entrails (internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines)

   Synonym: entranhas

   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     E, durante muito tempo, fez-se um vaivém de mercadores. Apareceram os tabuleiros de carne fresca e outros de tripas e fatos de boi; só não vinham hortaliças, porque havia muitas roças no cortiço.

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fato m (plural fatos)

1. Brazilian Portuguese standard form of facto

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

fato m (plural fatos)

1. (collective) a small herd of goats; a flock

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.to]
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

fato f

1. vocative singular of fată

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: fa‧to

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

1. (Spain) alternative form of fatuo

• “fato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.to]
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

fato

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

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