rats

See also: Rats, RATs, and 'rats

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɹæts/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æts

Noun

rats

  1. plural of rat

Interjection

rats

  1. (informal) Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn. [from 1886]
  2. (informal) Expression of disbelief.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."

Translations

Verb

rats

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rat

See also

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

rats

  1. plural of rat

Danish

Noun

rats n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of rat
  2. indefinite genitive plural of rat

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁa/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

rats m

  1. plural of rat

Anagrams

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *retas. Cognates include Latvian rets and Lithuanian retas.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈrat͡s]
  • Hyphenation: rats

Adjective

rats

  1. rare

Declension
Indefinite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)
masculine feminine
singular plural singular plural
nominative rats rati rata ratys, ratas1)
genitive rata ratu ratys, ratas1) ratu
dative ratam ratim ratai ratom
accusative ratu ratus ratu ratys, ratas1)
instrumental ratu ratim ratu ratom
locative ratā ratūs ratā ratuos
1) dialectal
Definite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)
masculine feminine
singular plural singular plural
nominative ratais, ratīs ratī ratuo ratuos
genitive ratuo ratūs ratuos ratūs
dative ratajam ratajim ratajai ratajom
accusative ratū ratūs ratū ratuos
instrumental ratū ratajim ratū ratajom
locative ratajā ratajūs ratajā ratajuos

References
  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

Latvian
Stūres rats (1)
Dzirnavu rats (1)
Rati (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɾats]

Noun

rats m (1st declension)

  1. wheel (circular device that rotates on its axis)
    stūres rats ― steering wheel
    dzirnavu rats ― millwheel
    spara rats, spararats ― flywheel
    ķēdes pārvada rats ― chain wheel
    laimes rats ― the wheel of fortune
    pagriezt atpakaļ , apturēt vēstures ratu ― to turn back, to stop the wheel of history
  2. (only plural) cart, carriage (small wheeled vehicle drawn by animals)
    jūgt zirgu ratos ― to harness a horse to a cart
    vienjūga, divjūga rati ― a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage
    smagie rati ― heavy cart
    rati ar gumijas riteņiem ― a cart with rubber wheels

Declension
Declension of rats (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) rats rati
accusative (akuzatīvs) ratu ratus
genitive (ģenitīvs) rata ratu
dative (datīvs) ratam ratiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) ratu ratiem
locative (lokatīvs) ratā ratos
vocative (vokatīvs) rat rati

Synonyms

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “rats”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Volapük

Noun

rats

  1. nominative plural of rat
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