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Webster 1913 Edition
Amate
A-mate′
,Verb.
T.
[OF.
amater
, amatir
.] To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.
[Obs. or Archaic]
The Silures, to
amate
the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.
A-mate′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
a-
+ mate
.] To be a mate to; to match.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amate
AMA'TE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
amate
amate
See also: ámate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈmɑːteɪ/
Noun
amate (plural amates)
- Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
- An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
Translations
paper produced from Ficus bark
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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)
- (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.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Etymology 3
Verb
amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
amate f pl
- feminine plural of amato
Noun
amate f
- plural of amata
Verb
amate
- second-person plural present indicative of amare
- second-person plural imperative of amare
- feminine plural of amato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
amāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of amō
Participle
amāte
- vocative masculine singular of amātus
Spanish
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ˈma.te/
Noun
amate m (plural amates)
Synonyms
- (amate paper): papel amate
Descendants
- English: amate