sate

See also säte, and saté

English

Alternative forms

• sade (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /seɪt/, X-SAMPA: /seIt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

From earlier sate, sade (“to satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to satisfy, become satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadōnan (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *sā- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). More at sad.

Verb

sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)

1. To satisfy; fill up.

   At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

Related terms

• satiate
• satisfactory
• saturate
• surfeit

Translations

To satisfy; fill up

• Finnish: tyydyttää (fi), täyttää (fi)
• Portuguese: saciar (pt)
• Romanian: sătura (ro)

• Scottish Gaelic: sàsaich (gd)
• Turkish: doymak (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).

Verb

sate

1. (dated) Simple past of sit.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Etymology 3

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Noun

sate (plural sates)

1. satay

Anagrams

• AEST, east, East, eats, ESTA, etas, seat, SEAT, seta, tase, teas

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Noun

sate

1. satay (dish)

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Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sate/
• Rhymes: -te, -e

Noun

sate

1. satay (dish)

Descendants

Arabic: ساتيه (saatiih) Dutch: saté English: satay / sate / satai / saté French: satay / saté German: Satay / Saté Hungarian: szaté Indonesian: sate Italian: saté Japanese: サテ (sate)

Korean: 사테 (sate) Mandarin: 沙茶 (shāchá) / 沙爹 (shādiē) / 沙嗲 (shādiǎ) Polish: satay / saté Portuguese: satay Russian: сатай (sataj) / сате (sate) / сатэ (sate) Spanish: satay Thai: สะเต๊ะ (sate) Vietnamese: satê