English

Proper noun

Cate

1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

English

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?

   • 1820, John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, l. 172-3:

     All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night

   • 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.

Asturian

Verb

cate

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

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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

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.