-ata

From Latin -ata.

-ata

1. Added to nouns to form adjectives Having, -ed.

   tentaculata ― having tentacles, tentacled

-ata

1. Used to form formal plurals of certain Greek-derived words ending '-a', such as thema/themata, stigma/stigmata, schema/schemata.

• AAT, TAA, taa

-ata

1. See -at-

Re-extracted from -ta applied to stems ending in -a. Use perhaps also influenced by Swedish -a, particularly when used for loanwords.

-ata (front vowel harmony variant -ätä, stem -aa-, linguistic notation -AA- or -AtA)

1. Derives verbs.

Attaches to the weak stem of whatever it is affixed to.

Note that gradation may apply.

• -ta

• -taa, aat, taa

• IPA^(key): [ɒtɒ]

-ata

2. (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -ás), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-a), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.

   ‎hall (“to hear”) + ‎-ata → ‎hallata (“his/her hearing [of/about something]”)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -ta is added to most back-vowel verbs

  -te is added to most front-vowel verbs

  -tte is added to front-vowel verbs that originally ended in a vowel (like jön, originally jő)

  -ata is added to back-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like hall)

  -ete is added to front-vowel verbs that form the infinitive with a linking vowel (like kell)

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Borrowed from Italian -ata, Portuguese -ada/Spanish -ada, all ultimately from Latin -āta(m).

• IPA^(key): /ˈata/

1=n

-ata

1. forms nouns from nouns, denoting contents or a quantity; -ful, load

   ‎coclear (“spoon”) + ‎-ata → ‎coclearata (“spoonful”)

   ‎bucca (“mouth”) + ‎-ata → ‎buccata (“mouthful”)

   ‎carretta (“cart”) + ‎-ata → ‎carrettata (“cartload”)

• This suffix is not to be confused with -ato (“-ate, -dom”).

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: -à‧ta

-ata f (non-lemma form of past participle-forming suffix)

1. feminine singular of -ato; forms the feminine singular past participle of regular -are verbs

   ‎trovare (“to find”) + ‎-ata → ‎trovata (“found”)

Nominalization of the past participle form of Etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: -à‧ta

-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ate)

1. used to form verbal nouns, derived from regular -are verbs, expressing an instance of the action expressed by the verb; -th, -ness, -hood

   ‎telefonare (“to phone”) + ‎-ata → ‎telefonata (“phone call”)

   ‎nevicare (“to snow”) + ‎-ata → ‎nevicata (“snowfall, snow”)

2. used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a period of time

   ‎giorno (“daytime”) + ‎-ata → ‎giornata (“a day”)

   ‎mattina (“morning-time”) + ‎-ata → ‎mattinata (“a morning”)

3. used to form words, derived from nouns, corresponding to -ful (as much as something will hold)

   ‎cucchiaio (“spoon”) + ‎-ata → ‎cucchiaiata (“spoonful”)

   ‎forchetta (“fork”) + ‎-ata → ‎forchettata (“a forkful”)

4. used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a blow with the named object

   ‎coltello (“knife”) + ‎-ata → ‎coltellata (“stab”)

   ‎bastone (“stick”) + ‎-ata → ‎bastonata (“blow with a stick”)

5. used to form nouns, derived from nouns with a negative connotation, expressing an action

   ‎cretino (“stupid”) + ‎-ata → ‎cretinata (“a stupid action or thing, stupidity”)

   ‎scena (“scene”) + ‎-ata → ‎scenata (“row, scene”)

6. used to form collective nouns

   ‎cucciolo (“cub, puppy”) + ‎-ata → ‎cucciolata (“litter (of newborn animals)”)

   ‎fiaccola (“torch”) + ‎-ata → ‎fiaccolata (“torchlight procession”)

7. (rare) used as an intensifier

   ‎fiamma (“flame”) + ‎-ata → ‎fiammata (“burst of flames”)

• Functions of this suffix may sometimes overlap (e.g. ‎mano (“hand”) + ‎-ata → ‎manata (“a handful”, but also “a smack given with the hand, a slap”) )

• → Ligurian: -âta

Ultimately from the feminine of etymology 2.

-āta (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)

1. forms nouns

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: -ata
  • Sicilian: -ata
• North Italian:
  • Venetan: -ada
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: -ada
  • Franco-Provençal: -â
  • Old French: -ee
    • French: -ée
  • Occitan: -ada
    • → French: -ade
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: -ada, -ata (Pyrenean)
  • Galician: -ada
  • Portuguese: -ada
  • Spanish: -ada

-āta

1. inflection of -ātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

-ātā

1. ablative feminine singular of -ātus

-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -atas)

1. female equivalent of -ato