prato

Attested since 1435. Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɾatʊ]

prato f (plural pratos)

1. dish, plate
   • 1435, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-39:

     Rematouse enno meestre a sartana e o prato de Davi por X

     Davi's pan and dish were auctioned to the Master

   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a:

     Dous barriis, quatro pichees destano, dous pratos destano e hun de madeira … Hun conqeiro con viinte et quatro conqas et seys pratos de madeira, et tres malladeras et hun enbudo

     Two barrels, four tin pitchers, two tin dishes and a wooden one … a cupboard with twenty-four cups and six wooden dishes, and three bowls for shucking and a funnel

2. dish, preparation; recipe
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     E pois eu doze perdizes,
     e de polos ducia e media
     lle hei de lebar se Deus quer,
     e se podo vnha Tenreyra,
     por ser prato regalado
     que se estima en calquer mesa.

     Then I twelve partridges
     and a dozen and a half chickens
     I ought to take, God willing,
     and if I can a calf [veal]
     because it is an enticing dish
     that is appreciated in any table.

• coitelo
• culler
• garfo
• tallador

• empratar

• “prato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “prato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “prato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “prato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “prato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin prātum (“meadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: prà‧to

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prato m (plural prati)

1. grass, lawn (ground covered with grass kept closely mown)

   falciare il prato ― to mow the lawn

2. meadow

• parto, porta, porta-, potrà, tarpo, tarpò

prātō

1. dative/ablative singular of prātum

From Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). Possibly arrived through the intermediate of French plat, or perhaps a semi-learned term or one used by mainly upper-class speakers in the past, and thus avoiding the usual sound shifts from Latin -pl- into Portuguese -ch-. Compare Spanish plato. Doublet of the popularly inherited chato and the Hellenism plati-.

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: pra‧to

prato m (plural pratos)

1. plate
   1. a flat dish from which food is served or eaten
   2. a course at a meal
2. (music) cymbal

   Synonym: címbalo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:prato.

• → Annobonese: paatu
• → Bengali: পরাত (porat)