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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.
[See Mate.] To accompany; also to terrify, to perplex. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


amate

amate

See also: ámate

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


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


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

Descendants