acato
Spanish, verb
acato is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of acatar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, acató is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of acatar”.
What does acato mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of acatar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of acatar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acatamiento.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acato
- acatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is acato in Spanish?
acato appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).