fato

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fato. Probably from Proto-Germanic *fatą:^[1] compare Old High German faz (“container; vessel”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“container; vessel; vat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato

fato m (plural fatos)

1. bundle of things, especially one containing clothes
2. supplies or provisions for shepherds (usually carried in a bundle)
3. herd, flock, group

   Os desa vila non son máis que un fato de borrachos!

   That town's people are but a group of drunkards!

   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 134:

     Jupiter se fezo caudillo da grey -et grey se entende aqui por ovellas ou grey de fato dellas, et caudillo por carneyro

     Jupiter became leader of the flock - and flock here means sheep or flock of group of them, and leader means ram

• afatar (“to harness, rig; to gather, put togther”)
• fatelo (“piece of clothing”)

From Latin fatuus (“foolish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/ [ˈfa.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ato

fato (feminine fata, masculine plural fatos, feminine plural fatas)

1. foolish, fatuous
2. annoying

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fato”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fato”, 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), “fato”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fato”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English fate, Italian fato, and further borrowed from French fatal, German fatal, Russian фата́льный (fatálʹnyj), Spanish fatal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

fato (plural fati)

1. fate, lot

• destino (“destiny”)

From Latin factus.

fato

1. done, made

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fà‧to

From Latin fātum.

fato m (plural fati)

1. fate, destiny

• fatidico

• fato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fatare

fātō

1. dative/ablative neuter singular of fatum

fātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fātus

From Latin factum.

fato m (plural fatos)

1. fact (sometimes which is real)

• de fato

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: fa‧to

Uncertain, but likely from a Proto-Germanic root *fat-; compare Old High German fazzōn (“to get dressed”), German Fetzen (“rag(s), scrap(s)”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“liquid container, vessel; vat”). Possibly from a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat).^[1] Compare Franco-Provençal fata (“pocket”), Galician fato (“herd”), Spanish hato (“bundle; animal herd; worker supplies; clique, gang”).

fato m (plural fatos)

1. a set of clothing traditionally worn together, such as a uniform or national costume

   Synonym: traje

2. (Portugal) suit (formal clothing, male or female)

   Synonym: (Brazil) terno

3. (Portugal) entrails (internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines)

   Synonym: entranhas

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fato.

• fato de banho
• fato de surf

Alteration of facto, from Latin factum. Doublet of feito.

fato m (plural fatos)

1. Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of facto.

• de fato

Unknown, but likely ultimately from Arabic [Term?].

fato m (plural fatos)

1. (collective) a small herd of goats; a flock

• IPA^(key): [ˈfato]

fato f

1. vocative singular of fată

fato (feminine fata, masculine plural fatos, feminine plural fatas)

1. Alternative spelling of fatuo

• “fato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.to]

fato

1. (transitive) to align, put in a row, put side by side
2. (transitive) to order, arrange

Conjugation of fato
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tofato	fofato	mifato
2nd	nofato	nifato
3rd	Masculine	ofato	ifato, yofato†
Feminine	mofato
Neuter	ifato
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh