amate

See also: ámate

English

a codex page written on amate

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish papel amate (“amate paper”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɑːteɪ/

Noun

amate (plural amates)

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

Translations

paper produced from Ficus bark

• Portuguese: papel amate m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French amater, amatir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmeɪt/

Verb

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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?

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii:

     Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

   • Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

     For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

   • c.1815, John Keats, "To Chatterton":

     Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

Etymology 3

a- +‎ mate.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.

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

Anagrams

• A team, A-team

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Esperanto

Adverb

amate

1. present adverbial passive participle of ami

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.te/

Participle

amate

1. past participle of amar

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Italian

Adjective

amate f pl

1. feminine plural of amato

Noun

amate f

1. plural of amata

Verb

amate

1. second-person plural present indicative of amare
2. second-person plural imperative of amare
3. feminine plural of amato

Anagrams

• a tema

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) amāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of amō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) amāte

1. vocative masculine singular of amātus

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl āmatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmate/ [aˈma.t̪e]

Noun

amate m (plural amates)

1. fig tree (Ficus sp.)
   1. (Guerrero) Ficus obtusifolia

      Synonym: amate blanco

   2. (Oaxaca) petiolate fig (Ficus petiolaris)

      Synonym: amate amarillo

   3. (Chiapas, Tabasco) Ficus segoviae
   4. (Oaxaca) Florida strangler fig (Ficus aurea)

      Synonym: amate prieto

2. creeping fig (Ficus pumila)
3. amate paper

   Synonym: papel amate

4. amate (art form)

Derived terms

• amate amarillo
• amate blanco
• amate prieto
• amatillo
• amatito

 

Descendants

• → English: amate

References

• Catalogo alfabético de nombres vulgares y científicos de plantas que existen en México, México: Imprenta de la Dirección de Estudios Biológicos, 1923, page 42
• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 16