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amate en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /əˈmɑːteɪ/ (UK)
• /əˈmɑteɪ/ (US)
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Etymology

From Spanish (papel) amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

Meanings

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

Forms

Translations (3)

es amate (paper produced from Ficus bark) · es papel amate (paper produced from Ficus bark) · pt papel amate (paper produced from Ficus bark)

amate en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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• /əˈmeɪt/ (UK, US)
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Etymology

From Old French amater, amatir.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated. , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230
   • 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? 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true. 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
   • Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate. c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:
   • Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed. 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii

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amate en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

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• /əˈmeɪt/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Germanic *ga- Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der. Proto-Germanic *matiz Proto-Germanic *matjô Proto-West Germanic *gamatjôder. Old Saxon gimatoder. Middle Low German matebor. Middle English mate English mate English amate From a- + mate.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
   • More lucklesse disadventures did amate 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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