chato

Meaning

1. flat
2. pug-nosed
3. (Chile) annoyed, fed up, sick and tired
4. (Antilles,informal) kiddo, little one, youngster
5. (Peru,informal) (of a person) short

Concepts

flat

pug-nosed

pointless

large

low

obtuse

plane

porbeagle

sharks

small glass

snub-nosed

tipple

wide

flat nose

broad

small wineglass

extended

far

Synonyms

enano

achatado

amigo

ancho

botella

chata

chiquito

copa

lejos

llano

malo

👎

plano

tiburón

🦈

tinto

trago

aplanado

bayo

cazón

escualo

🦈

marrajo

pez ángel

romo

sarda

tiburón azul

tintorera

volador

angelito

anequín

angelote

atunero

avénelo

bacota

brasilero

🇧🇷

cailon

canguay

cazón de aleta

cazón de leche

cazón galludo

cazón lija

cazón trejo

cazón vitamínico

cazón ángel

cogotito

corta garoupa

maco

mako

peje-zorro

tiburao repasa

tiburón antropófago

tiburón azulejo

tiburón blanco

tiburón bonito

tiburón carite

tiburón coludo

tiburón con barbilla

tiburón de aleta negra

tiburón de arena

tiburón gris

tiburón pardo

tiburón ángel

tiburón-zorro

tollo mantequero

verdemar

apaisado

plano y liso

chatanuga

ñato

aburrido

bebistrajo

Hyphenated as

cha‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃato/

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). As the Spanish word was attested rather late in time, such as in Cervantes' Don Quixote of 1605, there are theories that it may have been a borrowing from Portuguese (where the phonetic shift of the Latin consonant cluster -pl- to -ch- is more normal; in Spanish, it usually becomes -ll-), or alternatively that it may have been a popular word used by the people that did not make its way into written documents prior to Spanish Golden Age literature, as it was only learned people and scholars writing in the Middle Ages. The phonetic evolution in this case may be explained by the word often having been postconsonantal (such as es chato, los chatos, un chato, etc.), which would fit in more with Spanish phonetic norms (compare henchir, hinchar). Doublet of plato, which in contrast to chato has a more learned quality. Cognate to Portuguese chato, Catalan plat, French plat, Italian piatto.