pratu

prātū

1. ablative singular of prātus

pratu

1. first-person singular past indicative of prast

Borrowed from Portuguese prato, 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.

• IPA^(key): /pɾaˈtu/
• Rhymes: -u

pratu (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. plate (flat dish for eating or serving food)

   Synonym: nha'ẽ

   • a. 1756, Rochus Hundertpfundt [attributed], [Prosodia da lingoa] [Prosody of the language] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica); copied as “Descreve hum Miſſionario a lida, q̃ tem com os ſeus rapazes [A missionary describes the dealings he has with his boys]”, in anonymous editor, 18th century, folio 90, column 1:

     Refetorio rerecoára / Cecé aanangái oimocüár; / Camutí mirí noiporacár, / Noicó copo iocypára. // Pratú oiocýb möanga nhó / Noikytyngóc catú kycé, / Iabé culhera, garfo bé, / Mbäé pabẽ ikyá oicó.

     [Refeitório rerekoara sesé aanangáî oîmokuar. Kamutimirĩ n'oîporakar. N'oîkó copo îosypara. Pratu oîosyb mo'anga nhõ. N'oîkytyngok-katu kysé, îabé kulhera, garfo bé. Mba'epabẽ i ky'a oîkó.]

     The one in charge of his cafeteria in no way takes care of it. He does not fill the little containers. He does not clean the cups. He only pretends to clean the plates. He does not properly remove the rust from the knives, nor from the spoons and forks. Everything is dirty.

• Despite seemingly breaking the no consonant cluster rule, this is the only form attested for Língua Geral (see krusá). The expected *paratu is only found in Nheengatu.

• Nheengatu: paratú, paratu

• Arronches, João de (1739), “PRATO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 258: “pratú”
• Hundertpfundt, Rochus [attributed] (a. 1756), [Prosodia da lingoa] [Prosody of the language] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica); copied as “Prato”, in anonymous editor, 18th century, folio 68v, column 2: “Pratú”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Prato”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 33v, column 1, line 10; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 225: “pratú”
• anonymous author (c. 1757), “Prato”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 108: “pratú”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Prato”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 58v: “Pratú”

pratu m (plural prati)

1. meadow, field