hato

Meaning

1. (masculine) bundle of things, especially one containing clothes
2. (masculine) supplies or provisions for shepherds, miners or other workers
3. (masculine) herd, especially of sheep
4. (masculine) clique, group of people
5. (masculine) gang, a ring of people of bad intentions
6. (Latin-America, masculine) cattle ranch
7. (masculine) grassy place to rest with one's herd

Concepts

herd

flock

pack

bottle

bowl

bucket

🪣

bunch

case

collection

container

drove

flock of sheep

glass

group

jar

🫙

lot

personal effects

provisions

receptacle

vessel

accumulation

cattle ranch

aggregation

assemblage

Synonyms

rebaño

manada

bulto

colección

conjunto

cúmulo

recipiente

tropa

cacharro

piara

acumulación

hatajo

bote

⛵

Hyphenated as

ha‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈato/

Etymology

From Late Old Spanish hato (“clothes; herd”), originally *fato, from a Germanic language, possibly a supposed Gothic *𐍆𐌰𐍄 (*fat), from Proto-Germanic *fat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pēd- (“to grasp, seize”).
Compare Old High German fazzōn (“to get dressed”), German Fetzen (“rag(s), scrap(s)”), Old Norse fat (“vessel; cover; blanket; garment”), English fat (“liquid container, vessel; vat”). Within Romance languages, compare Franco-Provençal fata (“pocket”), Galician fato (“herd”), Portuguese fato (“uniform, suit; animal entrails”). First attested in Juan Ruiz (14th century).
Coromines and Pascual suspect the Old Spanish term may have been further influenced by Arabic حَظّ (ḥaẓẓ, “one's share, portion”), particularly in the sense of "shepherds' supplies".