ate

See also: Até, Atë, até, atè, atê, atë, āte, åte, -ate, and átʼé

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /eɪt/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪt/, (dialectal) /ɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt
• Homophones: ait, eight, eyot

Verb

ate

1. simple past tense of eat

   Synonym: et (colloquial)

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of eat
   • 1805, Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great […] ‎^[1], volume IV, page 171:

     I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate.

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist‎^[2], page 27:

     “Haven't ate all the eggs, I hope? For I be hungry as a hunter […]

   • 2013 January 11 [1997], David Bell; Gill Valentine, Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat‎^[3], Routledge, →ISBN, page 140:

     So I'd have ate when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock […]

Anagrams

• AET, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, eat, eta, tea, æt.

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Asturian

Verb

ate

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of atar

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Basque

Noun

ate inan

1. door, entrance
2. pass, gorge
3. goal

Declension

Declension of ate (inanimate) indefinite singular plural absolutive ate atea ateak ergative atek ateak ateek dative ateri ateari ateei genitive ateren atearen ateen comitative aterekin atearekin ateekin causative aterengatik atearengatik ateengatik benefactive aterentzat atearentzat ateentzat instrumental atez ateaz ateez inessive atetan atean ateetan locative atetako ateko ateetako allative atetara atera ateetara terminative atetaraino ateraino ateetaraino directive atetarantz aterantz ateetarantz destinative atetarako aterako ateetarako ablative atetatik atetik ateetatik partitive aterik - - prolative atetzat - -

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Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑt̪e/

Verb

ate

1. to know, be knowledgable

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːtə/

Verb

ate

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of eten

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Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. Obsolete spelling of yate

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Japanese

Romanization

ate

1. Rōmaji transcription of あて

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Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

até

1. (anatomy) liver

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Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver
2. (figuratively) heart

Derived terms

• ole ate (“friend”)

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “ate”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Laboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

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Lindu

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver

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Lithuanian

Interjection

ate

1. (informal) goodbye

   Synonyms: iki, viso gero

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Mandinka

Pronoun

ate

1. he, him (personal pronoun)
2. she, her (personal pronoun)
3. it (personal pronoun)

See also

Mandinka personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		nte, n, m	ntolu, ntelu, n
2nd person		ite, i	altolu, altelu, al
3rd person		ate, a	itolu, itelu, y

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

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Middle English

Noun

ate

1. Alternative form of ote

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Mori Bawah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔate/

Noun

ate

1. liver

References

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 684

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Ojibwe

Verb

ate (changed conjunct form eteg, reduplicated form ayate, augmented form atemagad)

1. be (in a certain place)

   Gii-kwanabise iwe biskitenaagan imaa adoopowinaakong gaa-ateg.

   The birch bark tray that was sitting on the table tipped over.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ate

Independent	positive	negative
singular (0s)	ate	atesinoon
obviative singular (0's)	ateni	atesinini
plural (0p)	atewan	atesinoon
obviative plural (0'p)	ateniwan	atesininiwan
Conjunct	positive	negative
singular or plural (0)	ateg	atesinog
obviative singular or plural (0')	atenig	atesininig

See also

• abi
• ayaa
• biinde
• dagon

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ate-vii

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Portuguese

Verb

ate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of atar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of atar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of atar

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Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈate/, [ˈat̪e]

Etymology 1

Of Nahuatl origin.

Noun

ate m (plural ates)

1. a kind of Mexican jelly candy made by cooking fruit pulp, usually from guava, quince, peach or prickly pear.

   Synonym: dulce

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of atar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of atar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of atar.

Further reading

• “ate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 阿姊 (á-chí).

Noun

ate (masculine kuya)

1. a big sister: an elder sister, especially the eldest.

   Nagluto sina ate at nanay ng aming pananghalian. ― Our big sister and mother cooked our lunch.

2. (informal) respectful term of address or honorific for a young woman or girl or any female older than oneself; miss; sis

   Bumili ako ng pagkain kay ate. ― I bought food from the miss (food stall vendor).

3. (informal) A female upperclasswoman; a female senior

   Tinanong ko ang ate sa hayskul, "Ate, ano po ang mga gawain niyo sa hayskul". ― I asked my senior from high school, "Miss, what activities do you do in high school?"

See also

• ditse
• sanse
• sitse

Synonyms

• kuya
• manang
• manong

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Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• at
• attai
• āte

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Tocharian *āté, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Adverb

ate

1. away

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “ate”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 10

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Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɛ/

Interjection

ate

1. ow, ouch (expressing pain in response to heat)

   Ate! Inyatapai itsei! ― Ow! [The] fire is hot! [I got singed or burned].

References

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.