cate

See also: Cate, caté, câte, and câté

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

Aphetized from acate.

Noun

cate (plural cates)

1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, Act I:

     Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

     Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating ] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

   • 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XX, page 93, lines 172–173:

     All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

Anagrams

• CETA, acet-, tace

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cate

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

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cate

1. vocative masculine singular of catus

References

• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Verb

cate

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Spanish

Verb

cate

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