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Definitions and meaning of cate

cate

English

Etymology

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪt/
• Homophone: Kate
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

cate (plural cates)

1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

     Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

Related terms

Anagrams

• TeCA, tace, acet-, CETA

Afar

Etymology

Cognate with Saho xate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaˈte/ [ħʌˈtɛ]
• Hyphenation: ca‧te

Verb

caté (passive cattiimé)

1. (transitive) to help

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “cate”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Asturian

Verb

cate

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar

Galician

Verb

cate

1. inflection of catar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Khumi Chin

Alternative forms

• chauteh (Khimi Chin)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa˥.te˧/

Verb

cate

1. (transitive) to eat

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 86

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.t̪e]

Adjective

cate

1. vocative masculine singular of catus

References

• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

cate

1. (hapax legomenon) alternative form of gate (“gate”)

References

• “grete-cate”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ati

• Hyphenation: ca‧te

Verb

cate

1. inflection of catar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkate/ [ˈka.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ca‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Caló caté (“stick”), from Sanskrit काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”).

Noun

cate m (plural cates)

1. smack; slap
2. fail (in an exam)

Etymology 2

Verb

cate

1. inflection of catar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10