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発音

• enPR: gä′-tō
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɑ.toʊ/
• (uncommon) enPR: gă′-tō
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈɡæ.toʊ/

名詞

gato (plural gatos)

1. (term of endearment, chiefly Southern US, Southwestern US) cat, kitty
   • 2025 September 25, AstralSpiff, 51:51 from the start, in I Made New FNAF Speedrunning FUN‎, spoken by AstralSpiff, YouTube:

     Loaf, uh, we did the math, I guess she just turned nine. She would've turned nine somewhere in June. Middle-aged gato.

使用する際の注意点

• This term is not strictly reserved to the Latin American diaspora of the United States, and is also used with mild frequency as a Hispanicism by white Americans.
• While especially rare, the terms gata (for a female cat), gatito (diminutive), and gatita (feminine diminutive) are occasionally found. However, since English speakers generally do not differentiate between gendered forms of animal names, these are in limited usage.
• This term is chiefly used for domestic cats. This is likely because few other species of felids are found commonly living among humans in the range where this term is used.