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tato
ta
masc abl sg of ta (pron); nt abl sg of ta (pron); masc abl sg of ta (letter); masc abl pl of ta (letter); …
- ta (pron): that
- ta (letter): (gram) letter t; 24th letter of the alphabet; dental sibilant
- tata (pp): spread out; extended; expanded
- tato (pron): from that; therefrom; from him
- tato (pron): (comparative) than that; more than that; lit. from that
- tato (ind): from there; from then; thence
- tato (ind): therefore; thereupon; thereby; because of that; after that; lit. from that
- tato (ind): (gram) after that; lit. from that
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Built from
- ta — root · that (demonstrative)
Ancient deictic pronoun from PIE *to-, visible in English 'that', 'the', Latin 'is-te', Greek 'to'. Points to something nearby or already mentioned.
- -to — ending · ablative; adverbial formant
Ablative singular morpheme (< *-tod) creating both case-inflected and indeclinable adverbial forms. The ablative sense 'away from' generates the logical meanings 'from that reason' → 'therefore'.
Analysis. ta (demonstrative root) + -to (ablative singular ending, or adverbial formant deriving an indeclinable from the stem).
Etymology. ta is an ancient demonstrative pronoun from Proto-Indo-European *to-, the root of English 'that', Latin 'is-te', Greek 'to'. The ablative ending -to (< *-tod) is cognate with Sanskrit -tah, Greek -then, Latin -de; it originally marked direction 'away from' and developed into the adverbial sense 'from there, for that reason'.