Masculine
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pato

Meaning

  1. (masculine) duck, drake
  2. (Dominican-Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto-Rico, Venezuela, masculine, slang, vulgar) homosexual, faggot

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
pa‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpato/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَّطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بَت (bat, “duck”).

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