tata

tata

1. Alternative form of ta ta

From French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

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tata (plural tatas)

1. (slang) Breast.

• atta

tata

1. paternal aunt

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /tɑtɑ/

tata

1. pig

• Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

tatá

1. door; gate

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t̪at̪a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Compare tatay.

tata

1. a familiar address to one's father

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪aˈt̪a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

tata

1. (childish) a familiar address to a child

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪aʔˈt̪aʔ/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Compare tastas

tata

1. to wear out

tata

1. father

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.ta]

tata (animate)

1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1.

     Taita. padre delos niños. tata.

     Taita. the children's father. tata.

   • Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.

     Tata. por tayta,padre [dize el niño.]

     Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

• tahtli

• Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

tata

1. elder sister

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta/

• Audio

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tata f (plural tatas)

1. (childish) auntie

   Les enfants, aujourd'hui on va voir tata !

   Kids, today we're going to see auntie!

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

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

tata

1. fire

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒtɒ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

tata (plural taták)

1. uncle (used to call old men in a manner of humour)

tata (plural tata-tata, first-person possessive tataku, second-person possessive tatamu, third-person possessive tatanya)

1. order
2. arrangement
3. system

tata f (plural tate)

1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
2. big sister

• atta

Onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk. Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

1. dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

First declension.

• tata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

tata class 1 (plural batata class 2)

1. father
2. man

• IPA^(key): /tata/

From Tamil தாத்தா (tāttā)

tata

1. grandfather

   Synonym: granper

From kaka, from French caca.

tata

1. (usually childish) poo, excrement

tata (medial form tata)

1. (usually childish) to poo, defecate

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

• IPA^(key): /tâːtḁ/

tata m

1. dad, father

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

tata ?

1. father

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

From Latin tata.

tata

1. father, dad

• papa, pate

From Spanish tata.

tata

1. father

-tata

1. to hurry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ta/

• audio

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tata m pers

1. (informal) dad

• tato
• ojciec

• tata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

tata

1. mister
2. father

• jatun tata

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

• IPA^(key): /tâta/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta

tȁta m (Cyrillic spelling та̏та)

1. dad, daddy

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial) daddy, a term used by children for their father
2. (colloquial) nanny

• (nanny): niñera, criada

From Spanish teta.

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

-tata (infinitive kutata)

1. to tangle

• matata
• tatua

tata

1. conversational term used for one's father

tatà, tatâ

1. sign made by a sharp blade

• gatgat
• gatla
• tiab

From Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

tata

1. one

• taha