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See also: Appendix:Variations of "vat"

English

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English f?t (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).

Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vat (plural vats)

1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.

   a vat of liquid

   a vat of acid

   a vat of wine

   a vat of olives

   a vat of fat

   a vat of glue

2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
3. (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
4. (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

Derived terms

• junk vat
• vat dye
• vat jade green

Translations

a large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning

• Afrikaans: bak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缸 (zh) (gāng)

• Czech: ká? (cs) f, sud (cs) m, nádr? (cs) f
• Dalmatian: tinir m
• Finnish: sammio (fi), saavi (fi), soikko (fi)
• French: cuve (fr) f
• Galician: cuba f
• Georgian: ???? (avzi), ???? (ka) (ropi), ???? (ka) (ba?i), ???????? (ka) (cis?erna), ????? (ka) (?asri)
• German: Bottich (de) m, Trog (de) m, Wanne (de) f, Schaff (de) n (dialectal)
• Hungarian: dézsa (hu), kád (hu), tekn? (hu), tartály (hu)
• Icelandic: ker (is) n
• Irish: dabhach f
• Italian: tino (it) m, tinozza (it) f, tinozza da concia
• Kazakh: кеспек (kespek)
• Latin: linter f, cūpa f
• Macedonian: каца f (kaca)
• Maori: tāpu
• Middle English: vat
• Old Saxon: fat
• Ottoman Turkish: ???? (tekne) (in general); ???????? (?arabhane) (wine-tub)
• Persian: ?? (fa) (xom), ???? (xombe), ???? (fa) (xomre)
• Polish: kad? (pl) f, st?giew (pl) f
• Portuguese: tonel (pt) m, tina (pt) f
• Russian: чан (ru) m (?an), бак (ru) m (bak), ка?дка (ru) f (kádka)
• Scottish Gaelic: amar m, coire m
• Serbo-Croatian: kaca (sh), ma?tel (sh), ?abar (sh), ba?va (sh), badanj (sh)
• Slovak: bo?ka f, die?a f
• Spanish: cuba (es) f, tina (es) f
• Swedish: k?rl (sv) n

Verb

vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)

1. (transitive) To put into a vat.
2. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114:

     He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.

Adjective

vat (not comparable)

1. Designating a vat dye.

   vat red

   vat jade green

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat/

Etymology 1

From Dutch vatten.

Verb

vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)

1. to take
2. to grasp

Etymology 2

From Dutch vat.

Noun

vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)

1. barrel

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vātēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [?bat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [?vat]

Noun

vat m (plural vats)

1. vates (divinely inspired poet or seer)

Related terms

• vaticini

Danish

Etymology

From German Watte

Noun

vat

1. cotton wool

Derived terms

• vatpind
• vattet

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?.

Noun

vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)

1. barrel, tank

   Synonym: ton

2. (biology) vessel

Derived terms

• bloedvat
• lymfevat
• olievat
• vaataandoening
• vaatbundel
• vaatplant
• wierookvat
• wijnvat
• zeefvat

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vat
• Negerhollands: vat

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vat, ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above, as the Middle Dutch sense was "pot, object to put something in." Related to vatten.

Noun

vat m (uncountable)

1. grip, both literal and figurative

   geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...

Derived terms

• handvat
• vatten

Verb

vat

1. inflection of vatten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Volapük

Etymology

From German Wasser, English water, and Dutch water.

Noun

vat (nominative plural vats)

1. water

Declension

Declension of vat

	singular	plural
nominative	vat	vats
genitive	vata	vatas
dative	vate	vates
accusative	vati	vatis
vocative 1	o vat!	o vats!
predicative 2	vatu	vatus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English fat, from Old English f?tt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vat/

Adjective

vat

1. fat
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.

     I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74