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-ata
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ata"
Translingual
Etymology
From the nominative neuter plural of Latin -ātus, -āta, with meaning: "those having, purveyed with (a certain feature)".
Suffix
-ata
- forms taxa from nouns with underlying meaning "having a certain feature"
- Tentaculata ― having tentacles, tentacled, a taxonomic class made of animals having many tentacles
Derived terms
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English
Suffix
-ata
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ata
Esperanto
Suffix
-ata
- See -at-
Finnish
Etymology
Re-extracted from -ta applied to stems ending in -a-. Use probably also influenced by Swedish -a, particularly when used for loanwords.
Suffix
-ata (front vowel harmony variant -ätä, stem -aa-, linguistic notation -AA- or -AtA)
- Derives verbs.
Usage notes
Attaches to the weak stem of whatever it is affixed to.
Conjugation
Note that gradation may apply.
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ata
- (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.
Usage notes
- (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)
Derived terms
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Interlingua
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian -ata, Portuguese -ada/Spanish -ada, all ultimately from Latin -āta(m).
Pronunciation
Suffix
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-ata
- 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”)
Usage notes
- This suffix is not to be confused with -ato (“-ate, -dom”).
Derived terms
Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -ata not found
References
- Alexander Gode; Hugh E. Blair (1955), Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN
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Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ata f (non-lemma form of past participle-forming suffix)
Etymology 2
Nominalization of the past participle form of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ate)
- 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”)
- used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a period of time
- 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”)
- 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”)
- used to form nouns, derived from nouns with a negative connotation, expressing an action
- used to form collective nouns
- cucciolo (“cub, puppy”) + -ata → cucciolata (“litter (of newborn animals)”)
- fiaccola (“torch”) + -ata → fiaccolata (“torchlight procession”)
- (rare) used as an intensifier
Usage notes
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ligurian: -âta
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Latin
Etymology 1
Ultimately from the feminine of etymology 2.
Suffix
-āta (Late Latin, Early Medieval Latin)
- forms nouns
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Suffix
-āta
- inflection of -ātus:
Suffix
-ātā
Spanish
Suffix
-ata f (noun-forming suffix, plural -atas)
- female equivalent of -ato
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