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dato
[ dah-toh; Spanish dah-taw ]
dato
/ ˈdɑːtəʊ /
noun
- the chief of any of certain Muslim tribes in the Philippine Islands
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dato1
First recorded in 1610–20 as Datoe; partly from Malay datu, datto “ruler, chief,” and its variant datok, datuk “grandfather, elder,” partly from Indonesian datuk “head of the family, chieftain”; akin to datu ( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dato1
C19: from Spanish, ultimately from Malay dato' grandfather
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Example Sentences
Among themselves they call their important men dato, a Moro title, and their Moro dress has already been mentioned.
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Et dato, qud nullus omnino tortor inveniri valeat in Angli, utrum pro tortoribus mittendum sit ad partes transmarinas?
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Ubi spectaculi tempus venit eoque conversae mentes cum oculis erant, tum signo dato iuvenes Romani discurrunt, virgines rapiunt.
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Inde Romam de permutandis captivis missus est dato iureiurando.
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Deum timeto: regem honorato: virtutem colito disciplinis bonis operam dato.
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