English

a codex page written on amate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmɑːteɪ/

Noun

amate ‎(plural amates)

1. Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
2. An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French amater, amatir.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmeɪt/

Verb

amate ‎(third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xii:

     Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

     For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

   • c.1815, John Keats, "To Chatterton":

     Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

Etymology 3

a- +‎ mate.

Verb

amate ‎(third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• A team, A-team

Esperanto

Adverb

amate

1. present adverbial passive participle of ami

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.te/

Participle

amate

1. past participle of amar

Italian

Adjective

amate f pl

1. feminine plural of amato

Noun

amate f

1. plural of amata

Verb

amate

1. second-person plural present indicative of amare
2. second-person plural imperative of amare
3. feminine plural of amato

Anagrams

• a tema

Latin

Verb

amāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of amō

Participle

amāte

1. vocative masculine singular of amātus

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl āmatl ‎(“paper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈma.te/

Noun

amate m ‎(plural amates)

1. amate tree (Ficus insipida)
2. amate paper
3. amate (art form)

Synonyms

• (amate paper): papel amate

Descendants

• English: amate