metate

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish metate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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metate (plural metates)

  1. A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.
    • 1985, James A. Michener, chapter V, in Texas, page 326:
          Each evening, when he returned home, he found that María he prepared some new treat, for she was a most ingenious woman, capable of transforming the poorest materials into something delicious, and he grew to love the tortillas she made so patiently, kneeling before the stone metate as she beat the boiled corn into the gray-white mixture she later baked on the flat rocks.

Translations

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Esperanto

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Adverb

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metate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of meti

Latin

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Participle

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mētāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of mētātus

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈtate/ [meˈt̪a.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: me‧ta‧te

Noun

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metate m (plural metates)

  1. metate (a flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (mano) for grinding maize or other grains)

Descendants

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  • English: metate

See also

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Further reading

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