Cate in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Cate

You can make 17 words from 'cate' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'cate'
• 3 letters words from 'cate'
• 2 letters words from 'cate'

4 letters words from 'cate'

CATE 6

TACE 6

3 letters words from 'cate'

ACE 5	ACT 5
ATE 3	CAT 5
EAT 3	ETA 3
TAE 3	TEA 3
TEC 5

2 letters words from 'cate'

AE 2	AT 2
EA 2	ET 2
TA 2	TE 2

Definitions and meaning of cate

cate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology

Aphetized from acate.

Noun

cate (plural cates)

1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, Act I:

     Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]

   • 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 [transl. méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

Anagrams

• CETA, acet-, tace

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Asturian

Verb

cate

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

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Latin

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

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Portuguese

Verb

cate

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of catar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of catar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of catar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of catar

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Spanish

Verb

cate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of catar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of catar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of catar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of catar.

Source: wiktionary.org

• (archaic) a dainty or choice food.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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