patte

Borrowed from French patte.

patte (plural pattes)

1. A narrow band keeping a belt or sash in its place.

• tapet

Probably baby-talk. Compare Norwegian patte, Swedish patt.

• IPA^(key): /patə/, [ˈpʰad̥ə] or IPA^(key): /pat/, [ˈpʰad̥]

patte or pat c (singular definite patten, plural indefinite patter)

1. teat, breast (of an animal)
2. (vulgar, chiefly in the plural) tits, boobs (the breasts of a woman)

• falde til patten (“to come to heel”)
• hængepatte
• kopatte
• pattevorte

• “patte,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Derived from the noun. Compare Norwegian patte, Swedish patta.

• IPA^(key): /patə/, [ˈpʰad̥ə]

patte (past tense pattede, past participle pattet)

1. to suck (to drink milk from the breast)
2. (informal) to suck (to have something in the mouth, with the preposition på)

• “patte,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

patte

1. partitive plural of patt

From Middle French, from Old French pade, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), borrowed from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”).

Cognate with Dutch poot (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to English pad, path.

• IPA^(key): /pat/

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• Homophones: pattes (general), pâte, pâtes (some speakers)

patte f (plural pattes)

1. paw (of animal)
2. leg (of animal)
3. (anatomy, informal) leg (of a human)
4. (anatomy, informal) hand (of a human)

• “patte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• pétât

patte f pl

1. plural of patta

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

patte f (plural pattes)

1. (Jersey, nautical) fluke (arm of anchor)

Onomatopoeic (lydord)

patte m (definite singular patten, indefinite plural patter, definite plural pattene)

1. a teat (mammal (animal)), nipple (woman)
2. (informal) a woman's breast

• pattedyr

• “patte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “patte_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Onomatopoeic (lydord)

patte m (definite singular patten, indefinite plural pattar, definite plural pattane)
patte f (definite singular patta, indefinite plural patter, definite plural pattene)

1. a teat (mammal (animal)), nipple (woman)
2. (informal) a woman's breast

• pattedyr

• “patte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

patte

1. inflection of patta (“bowl”):
   1. ablative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. ablative singular of patta (“wing”)

patte

1. masculine/neuter locative singular of patta, which is past participle of pāpuṇāti (“to reach”)
2. masculine accusative plural of patta, which is past participle of pāpuṇāti (“to reach”)
3. feminine vocative singular of patta, which is past participle of pāpuṇāti (“to reach”)

Of imitative origin, similar to Danish patte.

patte c

1. (slang) a tit, a boob (woman's breast)

• (formal) kvinnobröst
• bröst
• (slang) tutte

• hängpatte

• “patte”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “patte”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “patte”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Fula Ordboken

• petat, tapet