pat

Alternative variant of participles patur, pasë, pasur. See pata (“I had”) (aorist form of kam (“I have”)) for more.


pat

to experience, undergo (something bad, unpleasant, unexpected, etc.)

rup-verb

pat first-singular present indicative (past participle pãtsitã)

pat first-singular present indicative (canonical)
pãtsitã (participle past)

From Latin patior. Compare Daco-Romanian păți.


pat

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 坺 (pet6)


pat

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噼 (pet1)


pat

pat (nominative singular)
paty (nominative plural)
patu (genitive singular)
patů (genitive plural)
patu (dative singular)
patům (dative plural)
pat (accusative singular)
paty (accusative plural)
pate (singular vocative)
paty (plural vocative)
patu (locative singular)
patech (locative plural)
patem (instrumental singular)
paty (instrumental plural)

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.


pat

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.


pat

(cycling) the slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout

nl-noun

pat c (plural patten, diminutive patje n)

patten (plural)
patje (diminutive neuter)


pat

We heard a pat on the door.

The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.

Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.

A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.

It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 45, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.


pat

To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.

He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 103:

To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.

I patted the cookie dough into shape.

Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat

Do you want to pat the cat?

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.

en-verb

pat (third-person singular simple present pats, present participle patting, simple past and past participle patted)

pats (present singular third-person)
patting (participle present)
patted (participle past)
patted (past)


pat

a pat expression

Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind a story so pat, you may think it is coin’d, on purpose to answer you, out of my mint; but, I can assure you, I saw it in print.

1788, William Cowper, Pity For Poor Africans 17–20

Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.

1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way

Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.

While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information.

1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 11:

The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects.

2010 May 22, “Jobs and the Class of 2010”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Space Jam: A New Legacy takes almost nothing but wrong turns, all leading to a glittering CGI trash heap of cameos, pat life lessons, and stale internet catchphrases.

2021 July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacy is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros properties”, in The A.V. Club:

Pat responses from management seemed to be multiple variations on the theme of “We value your feedback.”

2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 2, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:

Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.

en-adj

pat (comparative more pat, superlative most pat)

more pat (comparative)
most pat (superlative)


pat

Now might I do it pat

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.

He has the routine down pat.

Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.

1922 September 22, “At the Wauwatosa Table”, in City Club News, volume viii, number 2, Milwaukee, page 7:

Candidates in gubernatorial campaigns must stand pat in the middle, trying to push their rivals off the center line, charging the opponent with either left or right extremism.

In Ogoni[land], Shell locations lie pat in the middle of villages, in front and back gardens – and that should lay a particular responsibility on Shell to be absolutely cautious in its operations.

1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day, page 112:


pat

Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]

2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World, page 52:


pat

→ German: Patt

→ Greek: πατ (pat)

→ Polish: pat

→ Serbo-Croatian: pat

→ Slovak: pat

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).


pat

Li pat di m sa.


pat

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *pahət, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqət (“chisel”).


pat

is-noun

pat n (genitive singular pats, no plural)

pats (genitive singular)
pat (indefinite nominative singular)
patið (definite nominative singular)
pat (accusative indefinite singular)
patið (accusative definite singular)
pati (dative indefinite singular)
patinu (dative definite singular)
pats (genitive indefinite singular)
patsins (definite genitive singular)


pat

From Old Javanese pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

Inherited from Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqət.


pat

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

third-person singular perfect active indicative of pāscō


pat

čia pat

iš pat dugno

dabar pat

iki pat saulėlydžio

tas pat žmogus

tokia pat spalva

the same color (literally, “just such a color”)

Probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *pótis (“ruler; husband”), taking an archaic meaning of "self", with semantic shift "self" > "same" > "very". Compare also Hittite [script needed] (-pat).


pat

From Proto-Finnic *patto. Cognates include Estonian patt.


pat

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

From Proto-Micronesian *pasa, from Proto-Oceanic *basa, an alternative form of Proto-Oceanic *pasa.


pat

From Proto-Kayanic *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

Javanese: pat / papat

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

(figuratively, by extension) stalemate (any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss)

pacik (diminutive)
pat (nominative singular)
paty (nominative plural)
pata (genitive singular)
patów (genitive plural)
patowi (dative singular)
patom (dative plural)
pata (accusative singular)
paty (accusative plural)
patem (instrumental singular)
patami (instrumental plural)
pacie (locative singular)
patach (locative plural)
pacie (singular vocative)
paty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta, probably from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.


pat

Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih: *fat

South Halmahera

Buli

Buli (Indonesia): fat

Proto-Oceanic: *pat

Admiralty Islands

Western Admiralty Islands

Wuvulu-Aua: fa

Central-Eastern Oceanic

East Fijian

Fijian: va

Proto-Polynesian: *fa

Nuclear Polynesian

Ellicean – Eastern Polynesian

Anuta: pa

Ellicean

Kapingamarangi: haa

Tuvalu – Eastern Polynesian

Eastern Polynesian – Northern Outlier

Eastern Polynesian

Marquesic

Hawaiian: hā

South Marquesan: fa

Rapa Nui: ha

Tahitic

Maori-Moriori

Maori: whā

Rarotongan: ā

Rennellese: haa

Samoan-Tokelauan

Samoan: fā

Tongic

Tongan: fā

Micronesian

Gilbertese: a

Nuclear Micronesian

Kosraean: ah-ŋ

Trukic

Ponapeic

Pohnpeian: pah

Ulithian-Woleaian

Woleaian: faa

Western Oceanic

Meso-Melanesian

Core Meso-Melanesian

Saint Matthias

Mussau-Emira: ata

North New Guinea

Ngero-Vitiaz

Huon Gulf

Numbami: wata / ata

Papuan Tip

Nuclear Papuan Tip

North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux

Dobu-Duau

Dobu: ata


pat

Admiralty Islands

Western Admiralty Islands

Wuvulu-Aua: fa

Central-Eastern Oceanic

East Fijian

Fijian: va

Proto-Polynesian: *fa

Nuclear Polynesian

Ellicean – Eastern Polynesian

Anuta: pa

Ellicean

Kapingamarangi: haa

Tuvalu – Eastern Polynesian

Eastern Polynesian – Northern Outlier

Eastern Polynesian

Marquesic

Hawaiian: hā

South Marquesan: fa

Rapa Nui: ha

Tahitic

Maori-Moriori

Maori: whā

Rarotongan: ā

Rennellese: haa

Samoan-Tokelauan

Samoan: fā

Tongic

Tongan: fā

Micronesian

Gilbertese: a

Nuclear Micronesian

Kosraean: ah-ŋ

Trukic

Ponapeic

Pohnpeian: pah

Ulithian-Woleaian

Woleaian: faa

Western Oceanic

Meso-Melanesian

Core Meso-Melanesian

Saint Matthias

Mussau-Emira: ata

North New Guinea

Ngero-Vitiaz

Huon Gulf

Numbami: wata / ata

Papuan Tip

Nuclear Papuan Tip

North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux

Dobu-Duau

Dobu: ata

Southern Oceanic

Central Vanuatu

Malakula

Aulua: e mbis

Big Nambas: iv'a

Maskelynes: ivat

Labo: wes

Tirax: ilim

Neverver: ivat

Southern Melanesian

South Efate: ipat

From Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

From Proto-North Sarawak *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


pat

paturi (plural)
pat (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
patul (accusative definite nominative singular)
paturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
paturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
pat (indefinite singular)
patului (definite singular)
paturi (indefinite plural)
paturilor (definite plural)
patule (singular vocative)
paturilor (plural vocative)

Often thought to be from Greek πάτος (pátos, “path”), but also possibly from Latin pactum (“fastened, fixed, planted”), with the loss of the -p- in the normal result, *papt, explicable through dissimilation from the initial consonant; compare păta, boteza.


pat

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqət.


pat

пат (Cyrillic)
pat (nominative singular)
patovi (nominative plural)
pata (genitive singular)
patova (genitive plural)
patu (dative singular)
patovima (dative plural)
pat (accusative singular)
patovi (accusative plural)
pat (singular vocative)
patovi (plural vocative)
patu (locative singular)
patovima (locative plural)
patom (instrumental singular)
patovima (instrumental plural)


pat

sk-noun

pat m inan (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

patu (genitive singular)
paty (nominative plural)
patov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
nominative
pat (singular)
paty (plural)
genitive
patu (singular)
patov (plural)
dative
patom (plural)
accusative
locative
pate (singular)
patoch (plural)
instrumental
patom (singular)
patmi (plural)


pat

pats (nominative plural)
pat (nominative singular)
pats (nominative plural)
pata (genitive singular)
patas (genitive plural)
pate (dative singular)
pates (dative plural)
pati (accusative singular)
patis (accusative plural)
o pat! (singular vocative)
o pats! (plural vocative)
patu (predicative singular)
patus (plural predicative)