Noun: fato
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fato |
| Plural m | fatos |
Sample Sentences
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Os desa vila non son máis que un fato de borrachos! (That town's people are but a group of drunkards!)
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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) [1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 134:]
Nouns inflected like fato
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fato. Probably from Proto-Germanic *fatą: compare Old High German faz (“container; vessel”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“container; vessel; vat”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
fato', Old Portuguese Nouns '
fato', English Nouns '
fat'.
Verbs referencing "fato"
Spanish Nouns
hato, Portuguese Nouns
fato.
Translations