xato

Borrowed from Spanish chato, from Vulgar Latin plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʃa.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʃa.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈt͡ʃa.to]

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xato (feminine xata, masculine plural xatos, feminine plural xates)

1. curt, short

   Synonym: camús

2. Affectionate way of referring to someone.
3. pug-nosed

• nas xato

• “xato”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “xato”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “xato” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xato” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Attested since circa 1750 (jato). Probably onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish choto and Asturian xatu.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃato̝/

xato m (plural xatos, feminine xata, feminine plural xatas)

1. male calf

   Synonyms: becerro, cucho, cuxo, pucho

2. bull

   Synonyms: almallo, colludo

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

Borrowed from Arabic خَطَأ (ḵaṭaʔ). Compare Uyghur خاتا (xata) and Turkish hata.

xato (plural xatolar)

1. error, mistake

• xatoli
• xatolik
• xatosiz