pat

• IPA^(key): /pæt/, [pʰæt], [pʰæt̚], [pʰæˀt̚], enPR: pǎt

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• Rhymes: -æt

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.

pat (plural pats)

1. The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
2. A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
3. A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
   • Charles Dickens

     It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

• pat on the back (n.)
• patter
• pitter-pat: a diminutive of footfalls. "the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house."

• one one's pat

pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)

1. To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.

   To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22

     He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.

2. To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat

   I patted the cookie dough into shape.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

3. (Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).

   Do you want to pat the cat?

4. To gently rain.

• pat down
• pat on the back (v.)

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

1. timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken

   a pat expression

   • 1788, Cowper, Pity for Africans, p 18

     A story so pat, you may think it is coined.

2. trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality
   • 2010, New York Times, Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.

     The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.

• pat hand

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

1. opportunely, in a timely or suitable way
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet III.iii

     Now might I do it pat

2. perfectly

   He has the routine down pat.

• pat in the middle

Abbreviation.

pat (plural pats)

1. patent
2. (knitting) pattern
   • 2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World (page 52)

     Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder […]

• APT, ATP, PTA, TAP, TPA, ap't, apt, apt., tap

• patu
• pãtsãscu

From Vulgar Latin *pat(i)ō, from Latin patior. Compare Daco-Romanian păți.

pat (past participle pãtsitã)

1. I experience, undergo (something bad, unpleasant, unexpected, etc.)

• pãtsiri / pãtsire
• pãtsit

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

pat

1. stone

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

pat

1. cold

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /pat/

pat m

1. (chess) stalemate
2. stalemate (blocked situation)

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.

• IPA^(key): /pɑt/

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• Hyphenation: pat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

pat n (uncountable)

1. (chess) tie, draw, stalemate

• patstelling

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).

• IPA^(key): /pat/

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pat m (plural pats)

1. (chess) stalemate

• Greek: πατ n (pat)

• “pat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /pʰaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

pat n (genitive singular pats, no plural)

1. gesticulation, gesture

• pata

• apt
• tap

From Malay pat, shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əmpat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. Alternative form of empat

• papat

From Old Javanese pat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

pat

1. even

Akin to Estonian patt.

pat

1. sin

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

pat

1. stone

• empat
• ĕmpat
• ampat
• ămpat
• امڤت‎
• ڤت‎

Shortened form of empat, from Proto-Malayic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əmpat, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

• IPA^(key): /pat/
• Rhymes: -pat, -at

pat (Jawi spelling ڤت)

1. Alternative form of empat

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-Oceanic *pasa.

• MED phonemes: {pat}
• IPA^(key): /pʲatˠ/, [pʲæ͡ɑtˠ]

pat

1. swamp

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əmpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

• IPA^(key): /pat/

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pat m anim

1. (chess) stalemate

From Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

pat

1. four

Often thought to be from Greek πάτος (pátos, “path”), but also possibly from Latin pactum (“fastened, fixed, planted”), with the loss of the -p- in the normal result, *papt, explicable through dissimilation from the initial consonant; compare păta, boteza. [2]

• IPA^(key): /pat/

pat n (plural paturi)

1. bed

• pătură

• pat in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from French pat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat/

pat m (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (chess) stalemate

• patový -á -é

• pat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

pat

1. stupa

From French particularité.

pat (plural pats)

1. particularity