matto

Borrowing from Swedish matta (“carpet”) < Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה‎ (mitá, “bed, couch”).

matto

1. carpet, mat, rug
2. (figuratively) mat (chiefly in compound terms, thick layer of something that resembles a mat or carpet)

   ruohomatto

   mat of grass

3. (athletics) mat (floor pad to protect athletes)
4. mat, blasting mat (heavy, flexible cover, often made of used rubber tires and used to prevent debris from flying around during rock blasting)
5. (dialectal) tapestry, esp. of rya type

• (athletics): tatami (floor pad in some martial arts)
• (tapestry): seinävaate, ryijy

• matot

From Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), itself either from a contraction of a form *madĭtus (as a past participle of Latin madeō), or madidus (“drunk, tipsy”). Cognate to French mat (“matte, pale”).

• Rhymes: -atto

matto (feminine singular matta, masculine plural matti, feminine plural matte)

1. mad, crazy

matto m (plural matti) feminine matta

1. madman

• pazzo

matto

1. Rōmaji transcription of マット