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-ata

a plural suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, forming nouns used especially in names of zoological groups:
Vertebrata.

-ata

a plural suffix occurring in loanwords from Greek:
stomata.

A.T.A.

abbreviation for

Associate Technical Aide.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of -ata¹

< Latin, neuter plural of -��ٳܲ� -ate ¹, originally adj. in Latin, then substantivized in NL.

Origin of -ata²

< Greek t- stems, -mata result of, state of, act of; -ment

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Car park operators need to be a member of an ATA in order to buy drivers' names and addresses from the DVLA, and therefore be able to send them fines.

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Will Hurley, chief executive of the IPC, said this was why the ATAs then introduced their own joint code, as each ATA previously had its own.

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Nedim Turkmen, a writer for Sozcu newspaper, his wife Ayse Neva, and their two children, 18-year-old Ala Dora and 22-year-old Yüce Ata, were all killed.

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Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it had fired 50 rockets towards the Kiryat Ata settlement, and 80 missiles towards the city of Safed, both in northern Israel.

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Mr Elkadi told his relatives "about difficult days, a very cruel captivity", Ata Abu Medigam, ex-mayor of the southern Israeli town of Rahat, told Israel's Haaretz newspaper.

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