palate

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French palat, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpælɪt/ or IPA: /ˈpælət/

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• Rhymes: -ælɪt
• Homophones: palette, pallet, pallette (possibly depending on dialect or accent)

Noun

palate (plural palates)

1. (Anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
2. The sense of taste.

Translations

roof of the mouth

Albanian: qiellzë (sq) f. Arabic: حنك (ar) (Hának) m. Armenian: քիմք (hy) (k'imk') Bosnian: nepce (bs) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 上顎 (cmn), 上颚 (cmn) (shàng'è), 口蓋 (cmn), 口盖 (cmn) (kǒugài), 齶 (cmn), 腭 (cmn) (è) Croatian: nepce (hr) n. Czech: patro (cs) n. Dutch: gehemelte n., verhemelte n. Esperanto: palato (eo) Finnish: suulaki (fi), kitalaki (fi) French: palais (fr) m. German: Gaumen (de) m. Greek: ουρανίσκος (el) (ouranískos) m.

Hebrew: חך (khaykh) m. Italian: palato (it) m. Japanese: 口蓋 (ja) (こうがい, kōgai), 上顎 (ja) (じょうがく, jōgaku) Korean: 입천장 (ib-cheongjang, ip-), 구개 (gugae) Latin: palatum (la) n. Polish: podniebienie (pl) n. Portuguese: palato (pt) m. Romanian: palat (ro) n. Russian: нёбо (ru) (njóbo) n. Serbian: nepce (sr) n. Spanish: paladar (es) m. Swahili: kaakaa (sw) Swedish: gom (sv) c. Ukrainian: піднебіння (uk) (pidnebínnja) Volapük: palat (vo)

Derived terms

• palatable
• palatal
• palatally
• hard palate
• soft palate

Anagrams

• paleta

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Italian

Noun

palate f.

1. Plural form of palata.

Verb

palate

1. second-person plural present indicative of palare
2. second-person plural imperative of palare
3. Feminine plural of palato

Anagrams

• pelata
• platea

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Latin

Verb

pālāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of pālō

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Romanian

Noun

palate n. pl.

1. Plural form of palat.