agate

See also: Agate

English

Agate

Etymology 1

From Middle French agathe, from Latin achatēs, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ɡət/

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• Rhymes: -æɡət

Noun

agate (countable and uncountable, plural agates)

1. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
3. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch
4. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6. (countable) A marble made from agate.
7. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Synonyms

• (type size): (UK) ruby
• (marble): aggie

Hyponyms

• (mineralogy): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

Derived terms

• moss agate
• agate line
• agateware

Related terms

• aggie

Translations

mineral

• Afrikaans: agaat
• Albanian: agat m
• Amharic: አጌት m (ʾäget)
• Arabic: عقيق‎ (ar) m (ʿaqīq)

  Egyptian Arabic: عقيق‎ m (ʿaqīq)

• Aragonese: agata f
• Armenian: ագաթ (hy) (agatʿ)
• Azerbaijani: əqiq
• Bashkir: аҡыҡ (aqïq)
• Basque: agata
• Belarusian: агат m (ahat)
• Bengali: অকীক (bn) (ôkik)
• Bulgarian: ахат (bg) m (ahat)
• Burmese: မဟူရာကျောက် (ma.hura-kyauk)
• Catalan: àgata f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瑪瑙 (maa⁵ nou⁵)

  Hakka: 瑪瑙 (mâ-nó)

  Mandarin: 白瑪瑙, 白玛瑙 (báimǎnǎo), 瑪瑙 (zh) (mǎnǎo), 文石 (zh) (wénshí)

  Min Dong: 瑪瑙 (mā-nō̤)

  Min Nan: 瑪瑙 (má-ló / má-nó͘ / bé-ló / bée-ló)

  Wu: 瑪瑙 (mo nau)

• Chuvash: а́хах (áhah)
• Crimean Tatar: agat, akik
• Czech: achát (cs) m
• Danish: agat (da) c
• Dutch: agaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: agato
• Estonian: ahhaat (et)
• Finnish: akaatti (fi), agaatti (fi)
• French: agate (fr) f
• Friulian: àghite f
• Galician: ágata f
• Georgian: აქატი (akaṭi)
• German: Achat (de) m
• Greek: αχάτης (el) m (achátis)

  Ancient: ἀχάτης m (akhátēs)

• Gujarati: અકીક m (akīk)
• Hebrew: שְׁבוֹ‎ (shvo), אָכָטִיס‎ (achátis)
• Hindi: अकीक (hi) m (akīk), गोमेद (hi) m (gomed), गोमेदक (hi) m (gomedak), गोमेधक (hi) m (gomedhak)
• Hungarian: achát (hu)
• Icelandic: agat m
• Ido: agato (io)
• Indonesian: akik (id)
• Interlingue: agate
• Irish: agáit f
• Italian: agata f
• Japanese: 瑪瑙 (めのう, menō)
• Kannada: ಅಗೇಟ್ (agēṭ)
• Kazakh: ақық (kk) (aqıq)

• Korean: 마노 (ko) (mano), 아게이트 (ageiteu)
• Kyrgyz: агат (ky) (agat)
• Latin: achātēs (la) m
• Latvian: ahāts m
• Lezgi: гьакьекь (haq̇eq̇)
• Limburgish: agaot
• Lithuanian: agatas m
• Lushootseed: dxʷʔət̕əb č̓ƛ̕aʔ
• Macedonian: ахат m (ahat)
• Malay: akik, agat
• Malayalam: അഗേറ്റ് (agēṟṟŭ)
• Manx: agaid f
• Mongolian: гартаам (mn) (gartaam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agat (no) m

  Nynorsk: agat m

• Occitan: agata f
• Ossetian: агат (agat)
• Pashto: عقيق‎ (ps) m
• Persian: عقیق‎ (fa) (aqiq)
• Polish: agat (pl) m
• Portuguese: ágata (pt) f
• Romanian: agat (ro) n
• Russian: ага́т (ru) m (agát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏ха̄т m

  Roman: ȁhāt (sh) m

• Slovak: achát (sk) m
• Slovene: ahat (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: achat m

  Upper Sorbian: agat m

• Spanish: ágata (es) f
• Swahili: kalkedoni
• Swedish: agat (sv) c
• Tagalog: agata
• Tajik: ақиқ (aqiq)
• Tatar: ахак (tt) (axaq)
• Thai: โมรา (moo-raa), อะเกต (à-gàyt)
• Turkish: akik (tr), agat (tr)
• Turkmen: agat (tk)
• Ukrainian: ага́т (uk) m (ahát)
• Urdu: عقیق‎ m (aqīq)
• Uyghur: ھېقىق‎ (hëqiq)
• Uzbek: aqiq (uz)
• Vietnamese: mã não (vi)
• Welsh: agat m, agatau m pl
• Western Panjabi: عقیق‎ (pnb) (aqīq)
• Yakut: агаат (agaat)
• Yiddish: אַגאַט‎ m (agat)

5½-point type

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 七 (zh) (qī)

• Spanish: ágata (es) f

Etymology 2

a- (“on”) +‎ gate (“way”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈɡæt/

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Adverb

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.

   to be agate; to set the bells agate

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

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Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *anate, from Latin anatem (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• (Biscayan) IPA^(key): /a.ɡa.te/

Noun

agate inan

1. (Biscayan) Alternative form of ahate.

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Esperanto

Adverb

agate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agi

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French

Noun

agate m (plural agates)

1. agate

Further reading

• “agate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Ido

Verb

agate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agar

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Italian

Noun

agate f

1. plural of agata

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Mezquital Otomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ágata, from Old French agathe, from Latin achates, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎɣáte/

Noun

ǎgáte

1. agate

References

• Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎^[1] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3