atta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "atta"

English

Etymology 1

Probably from that's a with heavy simplification. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Contraction

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Alternative forms

• thatta

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

   • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:

     The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

Pronoun

atta

1. you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)

   𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta] ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)

Alternative forms

• anta (Eblaite)

Cuneiform spellings

Phonetic
𒀜𒋫 (at-ta)

See also

Akkadian personal pronouns¹

			Independent forms			Pronominal Suffixes
			Nominative	Oblique²	Dative	Predicative³	Possessive⁴	Accusative⁵	Dative⁵
Singular	1st		anāku	yâti	yâšim, ayyâšim	-āku/-āk	-ī, -ya	-anni, -nni, -ninni	-am, -m, -nim
	2nd	m	atta	kâta	kâšim, kâšum	-āta	-ka	-ka	-kum
		f	atti	kâti	kâšim	-āti	-ki	-ki	-kim
	3rd	m	šū	šuāti, šuātu, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-	-šu	-šu	-šum
		f	šī	šuāti, šâti	šuāšim, šâšim	-at	-ša	-ši	-šim
Plural	1st		nīnu	niāti	niāšim	-ānu	-ni	-niāti	-niāšim
	2nd	m	attunu	kunūti	kunūšim	-ātina	-kunu	-kunūti	-kunūšim
		f	attina	kināti⁶	kināšim⁶	-ātunu	-kina	-kināti	-kināšim
	3rd	m	šunu	šunūti	šunūšim	-ā	-šunu	-šunūti	-šunūšim
		f	šina	šināti	šināšim⁶	-ū	-šina	-šināti	-šināšim

1. This table gives Old Babylonian inflection.

2. Used to express the Accusative and Genitive case.

3. Used exclusively on adjectives to form the predicative construction.

4. Used on nouns and prepositions.

5. Used on verbs. Always follows the Ventive.

6. Still unattested form.

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at.ta/

Verb

atta (singular subject)

1. (active voice, intransitive) to be born
2. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in

   Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.

Inflection

Class I Verb Subjects (Active)

Verbs beginning with a vowel.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	attali atta-li	N/A	N/A
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishatta ish-atta	N/A
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	atta	N/A

Derived terms

• aatta
• ahánta
• chokmat atta
• ibaa-atta
• imatta
• nannishtatta
• ánta
• âtta

Related terms

• ashwa (dual subject)
• *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

Choctaw

Verb

atta

1. to live

Crimean Tatar

Noun

atta

1. locative singular of at

Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/
• Rhymes: -atta
• Hyphenation: àt‧ta

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

Japanese

Romanization

atta

1. Rōmaji transcription of あった

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈat.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈat.ta]

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	atta	attae
genitive	attae	attārum
dative	attae	attīs
accusative	attam	attās
ablative	attā	attīs
vocative	atta	attae

Descendants

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène

  Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠attánə⁠/, “dad”)

References

• “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "atta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “atta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers